The median home value in Columbia, MO is $330,373 as of 2026-06-30, up 2.7% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$330,373
Year-over-Year
+2.7%
Population
130,354
Columbia ranks #33 of 113 Missouri cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 21.4% above the state's city median of $272,079. It sits in Boone County, where the county-wide median is $337,133.
Columbia police recorded a violent crime rate of 348 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 2,318 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
The median home value in Columbia is $330,373. That's up 2.7% from a year earlier. That is about 21.4% above the typical county in Missouri.
Homes in Columbia are cheaper than Boone County as a whole, where the median is $337,133 — a difference of about 2.0%.
Columbia police reported 348 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 130,354. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.
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