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Home appreciation in Columbus, IN

Over the five years ending 2025, home prices in Columbus, IN grew an average of 8.7% a year.

Price growth at a glance

1-year

+4.2%

2025 over 2024. Indiana: +5.2%.

5-year, per year

+8.7%

Average annual growth, 2020 to 2025. Indiana: +9.4%.

10-year, per year

+6.5%

+87.0% in total since 2015. Indiana: +7.2%.

How does your home compare?

Columbus, IN home prices rose 87.0% over the ten years to 2025, while its ZIP codes ranged from +76.6% to +103.3%. Look up your home to see where it ranks among the homes around it.

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How Columbus, IN compares with Indiana

Indiana averaged +9.4% a year, putting Columbus, IN behind the state overall. For five-year price growth, Columbus, IN ranks 249th out of 409 metros nationwide and 10th out of 13 in Indiana.

Index, 2005 = 100

Columbus, IN and Indiana, quarterly house price index rebased to 100 in 2005.
YearColumbus, INIndiana
2005 Q1100100
2005 Q2102101
2005 Q3103102
2005 Q4103103
2006 Q1104103
2006 Q2104102
2006 Q3105103
2006 Q4106104
2007 Q1105104
2007 Q2107105
2007 Q3107104
2007 Q4108104
2008 Q1109105
2008 Q2110104
2008 Q3108103
2008 Q4109103
2009 Q1111104
2009 Q2109103
2009 Q3108101
2009 Q4108101
2010 Q110899
2010 Q2106100
2010 Q3109101
2010 Q4108101
2011 Q110698
2011 Q210598
2011 Q310899
2011 Q410999
2012 Q110998
2012 Q211098
2012 Q311299
2012 Q411199
2013 Q111299
2013 Q211299
2013 Q3110100
2013 Q4112100
2014 Q1110100
2014 Q2113101
2014 Q3113102
2014 Q4117103
2015 Q1115104
2015 Q2117105
2015 Q3117106
2015 Q4118106
2016 Q1115106
2016 Q2120108
2016 Q3121110
2016 Q4123111
2017 Q1124111
2017 Q2122113
2017 Q3124115
2017 Q4128116
2018 Q1128118
2018 Q2128120
2018 Q3133122
2018 Q4131123
2019 Q1134124
2019 Q2136127
2019 Q3137129
2019 Q4139130
2020 Q1140132
2020 Q2143133
2020 Q3145136
2020 Q4149139
2021 Q1151142
2021 Q2160150
2021 Q3168158
2021 Q4171163
2022 Q1182168
2022 Q2189178
2022 Q3189182
2022 Q4193181
2023 Q1194182
2023 Q2194190
2023 Q3205192
2023 Q4203193
2024 Q1205195
2024 Q2208201
2024 Q3213204
2024 Q4213205
2025 Q1210207
2025 Q2221211
2025 Q3220213
2025 Q4223215
2026 Q1221217
2026 Q2229221

Chart through 2026 Q2. Annual growth figures through 2025.

Growth was stronger over the last five years than over the full decade: +6.5% a year over ten years, +87.0% in total.

Over this history, home prices never fell more than 1.7% from a prior peak.

The strongest year was 2022 at +15.7%, and the weakest was 2010 at -1.1%.

In 2025 alone the index moved +4.2%, against +5.2% for the state.

ZIP codes in Columbus, IN

Over the ten years to 2025, the 4 ZIP codes FHFA measures in this metro ranged from +76.6% in 47203 to +103.3% in 47232, while the metro as a whole rose 87.0%.

ZIP codes in Columbus, IN ranked by 10-year home-price change through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
47232+10.6%+10.0%+7.4%+103.3%
47246-4.9%+9.2%+6.6%+89.8%
47201+4.0%+8.6%+6.4%+86.6%
47203+3.7%+7.9%+5.9%+76.6%

What a home report shows

Enter an address and you get a score out of 10 for how the home ranks on appreciation potential against comparable homes in its market, with the nearby sales behind it. Here is one saved report.

Example report · saved October 14, 2026

165 N Canal St, Apt 1205, Chicago, IL 60606

Appreciation score

4.1 / 10

Around the median

Where it ranks

Ranks above about 41% of comparable homes in Chicago, IL for appreciation potential.

Price against nearby sales

Priced below most nearby sales, at $300 per square foot across 6 comparable sales.

Read the full example report

Year by year

Annual house price index for Columbus, IN and Indiana, 2005 = 100 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
2005100.0—100.0
2006102.6+2.6%101.5
2007104.6+1.9%103.0
2008106.6+1.9%102.3
2009106.7+0.1%100.7
2010105.5-1.1%98.7
2011104.9-0.6%97.1
2012108.2+3.1%97.3
2013109.1+0.8%98.2
2014110.7+1.5%100.0
2015114.4+3.3%103.8
2016117.2+2.5%107.3
2017121.9+4.0%111.9
2018127.4+4.6%119.0
2019133.9+5.1%125.7
2020141.3+5.6%133.1
2021159.3+12.7%151.2
2022184.3+15.7%174.6
2023194.9+5.8%186.7
2024205.5+5.4%198.3
2025214.0+4.2%208.6

The 13 measured metros in Indiana

Measured metros in Indiana ranked by 5-year home-price appreciation through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
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1Fort Wayne, IN+4.5%+10.8%+8.3%
2Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN+5.3%+10.3%+7.7%
3Michigan City-La Porte, IN+8.6%+10.3%+7.5%
4Kokomo, IN+6.5%+10.1%+7.4%
5Muncie, IN+6.6%+10.0%+7.2%
6South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI+4.9%+10.0%+7.7%
7Terre Haute, IN+7.6%+9.6%+6.6%
8Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN+4.8%+9.3%+7.6%
9Elkhart-Goshen, IN+5.1%+9.2%+7.4%
10Columbus, IN+4.2%+8.7%+6.5%
11Lake County-Porter County-Jasper County, IN (metropolitan division)+4.3%+8.5%+6.4%
12Bloomington, IN+4.0%+8.3%+6.9%
13Evansville, IN+5.1%+8.3%+6.1%

Source & method: Metro figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index for metropolitan statistical areas and metropolitan divisions, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. State figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. The chart uses quarterly readings, with each series set to 100 in the first quarter of 2005. ZIP figures: FHFA annual five-digit ZIP index (developmental), ZIPs with sufficient transaction history. Missing years are reported as missing by FHFA and are not estimated. Each ZIP is placed in the metro that holds the county with most of its housing units. “5-yr /yr” and “10-yr /yr” are compound annual growth over the window ending 2025; all figures are nominal. Data published by the FHFA House Price Index; this edition compiled 2026-10-17. Educational data, not investment advice.

See the Indiana row in the state rankings, the county rankings, and, for why one metro number hides so much, why two homes in the same ZIP code appreciate differently.

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Measured FHFA data · chart through 2026 Q2