Columbia, Connecticut.
Typical home $439,130 (+4.0% in a year). Hartford-East Hartford-Middletown, CT metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,412 (+158%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,966 +4%
- $422,164$439,130 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $136,434 +45%
- $302,696$439,130 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.
- Columbia$2,305
- Connecticut$2,348
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Columbia, CT rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Columbia, Connecticut
Columbia is a town in . Half its households earn more than $127,000 a year and half less; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Columbia is a town in Connecticut where winters are colder than in most of the country and summers are warm. Snow and rain are plentiful, so the year is often wet, and the town's household incomes are high, with few households living below the poverty line.
Work. Residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, shops, and manufacturing. Many adults hold a four-year degree, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Mono Pond State Park Reserve is in or beside town and suits quiet walks among the trees and water. Wangumbaug Lake and the Natchaug River are both a short drive away, and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford is a longer drive away for art lovers.
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- 2,112households
- 35%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 22%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey.
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Willimantic Windham Airport weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Natural hazards
- Ice stormsVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across its planning region, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on and the Hartford-East Hartford-Middletown, CT metro.
Columbia home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Columbia$439,130
- Connecticut$447,319
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Columbia7
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Columbia address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Columbia — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.