Pickerington is a city in Fairfield and Franklin counties in the central region of the U.S. state of Ohio.

At 11.1 sq mi (29 km2), Pickerington is the second-largest city in Fairfield County behind Lancaster.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 11.1 square miles (28.75 km2), all land.

[7] As of the census[8] of 2020, there were 23,094 people, 8,373 households, and 7,787 families living in the city The population density was 2,355.8 inhabitants per square mile (909.6/km2).

The racial makeup of the city was 69.1% White, 19.0% African American, 4.9% Asian, and 6.1% from two or more races.

Pickerington uses the weak-mayor version of the mayor-council government, which constitutes an elected executive mayor position, an elected city council, and an appointed city manager position.

The Pickerington Police Department, currently led by Chief Tod Cheney, is a 24/7 operation consisting of approximately 30 sworn personnel, 10 civilian dispatchers/records technicians, and 1 administrative assistant.

[15] PLSD is made up of approximately 43.4% White, 33.3% African-American, 8.9% Asian, 6.8% Hispanic, .2% American Indian, and 7.4% multi-racial students.

[17] In 2021 OhioHealth announced details of a six-story, 220,000 square foot hospital that includes additional cancer services to the Pickerington community.

[18] Pickerington Parks and Recreation Department oversees a vast expanse of parkland that spans over 158 acres,[19] featuring a community pool and an array of amenities such as shelter houses, fishing ponds, basketball courts, softball fields, soccer fields, tennis courts, a putting green, playgrounds, swing sets, an arboretum, a covered bridge, sledding hills, a skate park, and an adult obstacle course.

[20] The city's two main corridors are Hill Road (state route 256) which runs from Main Street in Reynoldsburg through to Olde Pickerington Village and Refugee Road which runs through the top of the city.

Pickerington has one highway running through it Interstate 70 in the North of the city on the border of Reynoldsburg.

For over fifty years, trains transported passengers to and from Pickerington, but with the rise of car ownership and paved roads, rail travel declined.

In 1950, Pickerington's passenger service was discontinued, and the depot stopped handling freight traffic eight years later in 1958.