Columbus, Texas.
Typical home $308,469 (-2.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$783 (+94%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $9,190 -3%
- $317,659$308,469 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,090 +11%
- $278,378$308,469 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.
- Columbus$1,619
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 34 years.
Typical home values in Columbus, TX fell 2.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Columbus, Colorado County, Texas
Columbus is a city of 3,699 people in Colorado County. Half its households earn more than $49,418 a year and half less, against $66,377 across Colorado County. Unemployment in Colorado County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Colorado County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Columbus is a small city and the seat of Colorado County, Texas. Household incomes in town run below the county's, and the typical home is worth a good deal more than incomes alone might suggest. A minority of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with little or no snow and a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, or in professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Columbus are Columbus ISD, Columbus Community Hospital and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than it was a year ago, and the number of jobs has held about steady.
Things to do. In or beside town, the Old Stafford Opera House is a theatre, Cummins Creek is a river, and the Confederate Memorial Museum is a museum. A longer drive away, the Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area for wildlife and open prairie. Stephen F. Austin State Park, also a longer drive away, is another protected area.
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- 1,333households
- 28%of adults have a degree
What people in Colorado County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Colorado County had 7,493 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 64° and lows near 39°; warmest in August, with highs near 98° and lows near 71°. About 45 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Columbus weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Columbus
- Columbus ISDSchool district232FTE
- Columbus Community HospitalGeneral hospital170FTE
- WalmartDiscount department stores115
- Priority managementNursing homes96
- H-E-BRetail66
- Trucare Living Centers - ColumbusNursing homes55
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 552 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Columbus’ census tracts, 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 Colorado County.
Columbus home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Columbus$308,469
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Columbus listings — the market is cooling.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Columbus18.81%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Columbus52
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Columbus7
Zip codes with a Columbus address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Columbus — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.