Zip lookup · IL

62240
Columbia, Illinois.

Columbia, Saint Clair County, IL · St. Louis, MO-IL metro · population 1,796

What it costs per month · 62240 $445/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$167 (+60%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $649 +1%
$84,172$84,821 since Sep 2025
5 years
Down $8,299 -9%
$93,120$84,821 since Sep 2021

Monthly payment to buy the typical home

Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 62240 $445 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • 62240$445
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.

Typical home values in zip 62240 rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.

Zillow also publishes an index for the city itself: Columbia, IL — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.

Typical home value $84,821 as of Sep 2026
+0.8%year on year

Typical home value — 62240

Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$100,000 $200,000 $300,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 62240 $84,821 St. Louis $273,164 United States $366,157
$100,000 $200,000 $300,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 62240$84,821
  • St. Louis$273,164
  • United States$366,157

Within 20 miles

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1.7 62239 Dupo 4,232 — $131,337
3.4 63111 Saint Louis 18,851 $1,033 $119,322
3.9 62206 East Saint Louis 12,959 $1,370 $48,870
4.5 63125 Saint Louis 33,294 $1,238 $205,024
5.0 63118 Saint Louis 25,913 $1,186 $177,324
5.1 63116 Saint Louis 42,170 $1,093 $179,762
6.0 62236 Columbia 14,154 — $342,963
6.2 63104 Saint Louis 19,007 $1,423 $291,940
6.3 62207 East Saint Louis 6,984 — $39,087
6.4 63109 Saint Louis 25,236 $1,136 $266,491
6.6 63123 Saint Louis 49,077 $1,452 $246,724
7.3 62260 Millstadt 6,668 — $295,920
7.5 63129 Saint Louis 51,553 $1,485 $343,112
7.5 63103 Saint Louis 8,778 $1,437 $131,301
7.6 63139 Saint Louis 21,631 $1,305 $222,821
7.6 62205 East Saint Louis 6,459 — $32,264
7.7 63101 Saint Louis 3,130 $1,329 $185,965
7.8 63110 Saint Louis 17,645 $1,476 $301,498
8.0 63102 Saint Louis 2,882 $1,901 $146,883
8.2 62223 Belleville 16,269 $1,393 $180,196
8.5 63106 Saint Louis 6,751 $886 $115,590
8.6 63143 Saint Louis 8,975 $1,227 $253,585
8.8 62201 East Saint Louis 4,921 — $56,868
8.9 63108 Saint Louis 21,336 $1,664 $313,958
8.9 63119 Saint Louis 34,181 $1,816 $379,466
9.2 62203 East Saint Louis 5,465 — $38,863
9.3 63126 Saint Louis 15,452 $2,166 $339,602
9.5 63128 Saint Louis 30,540 $1,408 $371,821
9.7 63113 Saint Louis 10,221 $961 $52,352
9.7 62204 East Saint Louis 4,055 — $33,646

Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.