Median Home Price in Columbia, PA

The median home value in Columbia, PA is $289,633, up 4.28% from a year earlier.

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City housing-data period: September 2026. City source retrieval/check time (UTC) is recorded in the feed's updated field when available, not in the housing-data period.

Checked daily for new monthly Zillow releases, not new daily prices. Income and crime data are updated separately, not by the daily housing-data check. Unavailable means observation dates are missing or invalid.

Median Home Value

$289,633

Year-over-Year

+4.28%

Population

10,445

Home value history

The typical home value decreased by 2.5%, from $297,072 in May 2026 to $289,633 in Sep 2026.

Monthly Zillow Home Value Index snapshots retained by HomePriceMap. A short history is shown now and grows automatically as each new monthly release arrives.

Columbia, PA monthly home value history
Month	Typical home value	Year-over-year change
May 2026	$297,072	+4.2%
Jun 2026	$301,624	+4.3%
Jul 2026	$299,125	+4.2%
Aug 2026	$293,288	+4.4%
Sep 2026	$289,633	+4.3%

Columbia ranks #55 of 145 Pennsylvania cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 10.9% above the state's city median of $261,059. It sits in Lancaster County, where the county-wide median is $386,389.

Crime in Columbia

Columbia police recorded a violent crime rate of 297 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 2,030 per 100,000.

Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).

Common questions about Columbia

What is the average home price in Columbia, PA?

People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Columbia, that value is $289,633. That's up 4.28% from a year earlier. It is about 10.9% above the typical Pennsylvania city tracked here.

Is Columbia expensive compared to the surrounding area?

Homes in Columbia are cheaper than Lancaster County as a whole, where the median is $386,389 — a difference of about 25.0%.

Is Columbia a safe place to live?

Columbia police reported 297 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 10,445. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.