Lincoln Village is a census-designated place (CDP) in Prairie Township, Franklin County, Ohio, United States. It is centered close the intersection of US 40 and I-270 on the west side of Columbus. As of the 2010 census, the population was 9,032, down from 9,482 at the 2000 census.

Lincoln Village was started in 1955 as a planned community by a real estate subsidiary of Nationwide Insurance. The community was developed to have whatever the essentials, such as a shopping center, schools, and parks, and to incorporate safety considerations such as not positioning the homes on street corners to eliminate blind intersections.

Ohio Farm Bureau Federation President and CEO Murray Lincoln had aspired to create a suburban “village” since the at the forefront 1940s. Lincoln, as the head of what would become Nationwide Insurance from 1920 to 1948, initiated work on the Lincoln Village project in the into the future 1950s following the retain of the U.S. Cooperative Movement. Lincoln was clever to “sell” the Cooperative ideology to Ohio individual farmers, and viewed co-ops as “an solution to Communism in Europe and Asia, and as a version wheel next to unfettered private enterprise in the U.S.”^{[citation needed]} After founding several co-op and non co-op enterprises, Lincoln was skilled to fund the onslaught of Lincoln Village in the same way as assets made from these corporations (which totaled $133,510,000). Lincoln’s People’s Development Corporation was formed to build Lincoln Village. The price of this project was about $30,000,000 USD.^{[citation needed]} The mean for Lincoln Village included 9 miles (14 km) of streets, sewers, a pumping station, and a million-gallon water pump. Lincoln Village was built for 10,000 inhabitants, and was set roughly speaking a 20-acre (8.1 ha) civic center. In 1953, bulldozers completed grading of 1,270 acres (510 ha) of farmland in western Columbus for the construction of Lincoln Village, with churches, a school, wooded park, playgrounds, and a library. A shopping middle would as well as be built. Housing in the village was to add together apartment buildings and single intimates homes priced between $9,000 to $16,000.

Lincoln Village is located in west-central Franklin County at 39°57′10″N 83°7′57″W / 39.95278°N 83.13250°W / 39.95278; -83.13250 (39.952696, -83.132598).