Columbia, New Hampshire.
Typical home $266,010 (-5.8% in a year). Berlin, NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$845 (+153%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $16,478 -6%
- $282,488$266,010 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,580 +24%
- $214,430$266,010 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$1,396
- New Hampshire$2,682
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Columbia, NH fell 5.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Columbia, Coos County, New Hampshire
Columbia is a town of 659 people in Coos County. Half its households earn more than $57,917 a year and half less, against $57,677 across Coos County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% are rented. Unemployment in Coos County was 2.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 small town in the far north of New Hampshire, in Coos County, and nearly everyone who lives here owns their home. Household incomes are about the same as across the county, and the typical home is valued well within what many retirees would expect for the North Country. Winters are long, cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are mild and pleasant, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in government and in the building trades. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than is typical, and the usual trip to work is fairly short, though some people work from home. Across Coos County, the largest workplaces include the Omni Mount Washington Resort, Androscoggin Valley Hospital and the White Mountains Regional School District, and the county has lost a few jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Water is the main draw nearby. The Mohawk River and Simms Stream are a short drive away, and the Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge is also close. A longer drive brings you to Umbagog Lake, a large lake popular for quiet time on the water, and to Dixville Notch State Park, a protected area in the mountains.
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- 313households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Coos County had 11,730 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 0°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 52°. About 81 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Colebrook 3SW weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Coos County
- Omni Mount Washington ResortHotels, resort, without casinos880
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters275
- Androscoggin Valley HospitalCritical access hospital240FTE
- North Country HealthcareHospitals, general medical and surgical235
- White Mountains Regional School DistrictSchool district234FTE
- Berlin School DistrictSchool district221FTE
- Weeks Medical CenterCritical access hospital174FTE
- Morrison Hospital AssociationRest homes without nursing care140
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 33 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,450 people in all across the county; Columbia has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- AvalanchesVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Coos County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Coos County and the Berlin, NH 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$266,010
- New Hampshire$510,937
- 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.
- Columbia10
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.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.