Meeting space in Newark
What it takes to run an event in Newark, Ohio: 2 mapped venues, their stated capacities, and the travel around them. John Glenn Columbus International Airport is 42 km (26 mi) out.
Where Newark holds a crowd
Newark has a recorded population of 51,424 (2024), inside the Columbus, OH area of about 2.2 million people.
What is on the books here: 2 independent event spaces.
By type that is 2 event spaces.
Independent event spaces (2)
| Venue | Type | Stated capacity | From the centre |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midland Theatre | event space | not published | 0.1 km (0.1 mi) |
| Legend Valley | event space | not published | 13 km (8.3 mi) |
Every venue mapped in Newark appears above. The ones with enough published detail to be worth reading have their own guide and are linked; the rest are named here, which is honest about what the record holds without giving each of them a page made of three facts.
Arrival logistics
John Glenn Columbus International Airport (CMH) is 42 km (26 mi) away, far enough that arrival day is genuinely a travel day and a first session before noon will lose people.
Local time is New York time (America/New_York) — set every session time in the app to that zone and let attendees' phones do the conversion.
Zanesville, Mount Vernon and Lancaster are close enough to draw from for a day rate, and to fall back on if Newark has nothing free on your dates.
- Nearest major airport
- CMH
- John Glenn Columbus International Airport, 42 km (26 mi)
- Local time
- UTC−4
- America/New_York, in September
- City population, 2024
- 51,424
- 2.2 million across the Columbus, OH area
What already comes back to Newark
Newark already carries Lost Lands on a recurring basis, which tells you the city can absorb an event of that shape.
- Lost Landsmusic festival, since 2017
Recorded in Wikidata, which covers event series with an encyclopaedia entry. It is a floor rather than a full calendar for Newark, and it is not a listing service — check dates with the organiser.
Things that catch organizers out here
No exhibition hall on record
Nothing in the Newark dataset is classified as a convention or exhibition centre, so a trade floor needs either an arena floor, a fairground, or a nearby city. Check the arena listings above before you promise exhibitors a booth plan.
No published capacities
Not one Newark venue publishes a capacity in the open sources behind this page. Every room on the list will quote you a number directly, but you cannot compare them before you call, so build a fortnight of venue calls into the plan.
Arrival is a half-day
42 km (26 mi) from CMH means most attendees lose a morning to travel. Open registration the evening before and put nothing you care about in the first slot.
The city is smaller than the market
51,424 people live in Newark itself, but about 2.2 million live in the wider Columbus, OH. Your local audience is far bigger than the city line suggests, and so is the commute your day-rate attendees will make.
Pricing this against a real Newark room
A Newark programme at 240 activated attendees — a mid-sized Newark programme, since no Newark venue publishes a capacity in open data — prices like this. Nothing is charged for the first 50, and nothing at all is charged past 1,000.
- activated attendees
- 240activated attendees
- billable, after the first 50 are free
- 190billable, after the first 50 are free
- for the whole event, at $5 each
- $950for the whole event, at $5 each
You are billed for people, not for the venue, so the room you choose in Newark does not change this figure. Nothing is charged for an attendee who registers and never opens the app.
Matching the room to the format
No capacity is published for any Newark venue, so match the format to the room on your site visit rather than to a number on a listing.
- community meetings
Nothing in Newark publishes a capacity, so start with the format that scales down: a single room, one track, no exhibition.
- networking mixers
A mixer works in almost any room, which makes it the safe first event in a new city.
Where this data comes from
- GeoNames, CC BY 4.0
- US Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 estimates
- Wikidata, CC0
- Geographic data © GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Venue data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License.
- US population figures are US Census Bureau Vintage 2024 estimates.
- Retrieved 3 September 2026. event67 has no commercial relationship with any venue listed.
Last updated
What it costs
- Free up to 50
- activated attendees, on one live event
- $5
- per activated attendee beyond 50
- $4,750
- the most one event can ever cost, whatever happens past 1,000
Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.
Questions people actually ask
Price a Newark event at 240 attendees — what is the total?
240 activated attendees means 190 billable after the free 50, so $950 for the event. The price is $5 per activated attendee beyond the first 50, and the total for one event stops at $4,750 however many more attend. Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.
How big an event can Newark hold?
No Newark venue publishes a capacity in the open sources behind this page, so there is no honest number to quote. 2 venues are mapped here and each will quote a capacity directly. Ask for the seated, theatre and reception figures separately — they differ by a factor of two or more in the same room.
Can you run a trade show in Newark?
Nothing in the Newark dataset is classified as a convention or exhibition centre. A trade floor here means an arena floor, a fairground or a venue in a nearby city such as Zanesville. For a conference without an exhibition, the 2 venues on this page are the field.
Which airport do attendees fly into for Newark?
John Glenn Columbus International Airport (CMH), about 42 km (26 mi) from the city. It is the highest-traffic airport within reach in this dataset. Local time is America/New_York; publish every session in that zone and let attendees' phones convert it.
Can I run a small Newark event on event67 for nothing?
One live event with up to 50 activated attendees costs nothing. Beyond that it is $5 per activated attendee beyond the first 50, and the total for one event stops at $4,750 however many more attend. Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.
What events already happen in Newark?
Recurring shows recorded for Newark include Lost Lands. This list comes from Wikidata and covers series with an encyclopaedia entry, so it is a floor rather than a full calendar. Check your dates against it: hotel rates and venue availability both move around a returning show.
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Running something in Newark?
Set the schedule, invite the room and watch who actually turns up. Free for your first 50 activated attendees, on one live event.