A typical Columbia Falls home is worth about $610,000
Up 1.7% in a year, 29% above the Montana typical home.
Only 4 sales in May 2026: in a market this size, monthly medians swing a lot, so the typical value is the steadier guide.
What kind of housing town is Columbia Falls?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 8.1 years of income
More than across Montana (6.5 years). Try your own numbers below.
That’s $307K short of a typical Columbia Falls home.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,600 a month here, $1,970 less than owning.
How Columbia Falls ranks on affordability →
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Columbia Falls’s typical property tax (0.73% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
Up 27.6% in five years
About the same pace as Montana (25%).
Show as a table
| January | Columbia Falls | Montana |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $259,000 | $233,000 |
| 2018 | $281,000 | $248,000 |
| 2019 | $299,000 | $262,000 |
| 2020 | $320,000 | $277,000 |
| 2021 | $384,000 | $318,000 |
| 2022 | $528,000 | $406,000 |
| 2023 | $572,000 | $434,000 |
| 2024 | $585,000 | $447,000 |
| 2025 | $611,000 | $464,000 |
| 2026 | $608,000 | $468,000 |
| August 2026 | $610,000 | $472,000 |
A typical Columbia Falls home worth $255K in September 2016 is worth about $610K today.
How Columbia Falls ranks on rising home prices →
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,600
Renters already here pay a median of $1,016, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Flathead County, MT): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
20 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 20 new homes in Columbia Falls in 2025, all single-family houses, worth about $8.4 million to build. That's 3.6 per 1,000 residents, slower than across Montana (7.3). Over the past 10 years, Columbia Falls has permitted 424 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Columbia Falls gained 620 residents while 435 new homes were permitted: about 1.4 new residents per new home. Building outpaced population growth, which usually means smaller households or homes used part of the year. Across Montana: 2.4 new residents per new home.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 53 | 1 | 52 | $10.7 million |
| 2025 | 20 | 20 | 0 | $8.4 million |
| 2024 | 12 | 12 | 0 | $5.2 million |
| 2023 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $1.3 million |
| 2022 | 21 | 9 | 12 | $8 million |
| 2021 | 17 | 11 | 6 | $4.6 million |
| 2020 | 35 | 21 | 14 | $7.8 million |
| 2019 | 116 | 14 | 102 | $12.2 million |
| 2018 | 104 | 32 | 72 | $12.4 million |
| 2017 | 62 | 20 | 42 | $8.5 million |
| 2016 | 32 | 17 | 15 | $5.7 million |
| 2015 | 31 | 15 | 16 | $5 million |
| 2014 | 45 | 19 | 26 | $8 million |
| 2013 | 25 | 7 | 18 | $4 million |
| 2012 | 6 | 0 | 6 | $847,000 |
| 2011 | 8 | 0 | 8 | $1.1 million |
| 2010 | 6 | 4 | 2 | $1.2 million |
| 2009 | 6 | 6 | 0 | $1.5 million |
| 2008 | 24 | 24 | 0 | $5.4 million |
| 2007 | 37 | 25 | 12 | $7.8 million |
| 2006 | 77 | 35 | 42 | $13.5 million |
| 2005 | 81 | 57 | 24 | $13.9 million |
| 2004 | 94 | 40 | 54 | $11.1 million |
| 2003 | 74 | 66 | 8 | $10.7 million |
| 2002 | 28 | 28 | 0 | $4.4 million |
| 2001 | 17 | 17 | 0 | $2.1 million |
| 2000 | 20 | 20 | 0 | $2.4 million |
How Columbia Falls ranks on new homes being built →
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
56% of Columbia Falls households own their home
Half of Columbia Falls’s homes were built before 1980.
Montana: 69% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.
On the market in Columbia Falls
Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.
Neighbors talk housing
What Columbia Falls buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center, May 2026. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.