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Columbia mortgage calculator
A median-priced Columbia, MO home at 6.75% over 30 years, with Missouri property tax of 0.88% and $2,900 a year of homeowners insurance. Every figure below is computed on our amortising engine — nothing is estimated in the browser.
$1,987 a month, all in
Principal and interest are $1,459; escrow and PMI add the rest. Over the full term the loan costs $300,364 in interest. Discounted at 5%, buying here has a net present value of $55,565 ($225,985 in today’s dollars).
Within Missouri, Columbia is 2nd of the 4 Missouri markets covered here, between Kansas City at the top and St. Louis at the bottom of a 1.33x spread. A state-level median hides most of that.
A price-to-rent ratio of 16.0 puts Columbia in the middle of the range, where the rent-vs-buy answer is decided by how long you stay and what the deposit would otherwise earn.
Columbia prices track the Missouri median closely, at $250,000 against $250,000 statewide, so the state-level tax and insurance assumptions carry over without much adjustment.
Monthly cost in Columbia vs comparable rent
Owning is stacked by component; renting is the local median asking rent.
The monthly breakdown
| Median home price | $250,000 |
|---|---|
| Down payment (10%) | $25,000 |
| Loan amount | $225,000 |
| Principal & interest | $1,459/mo |
| Property tax (0.88%) | $183/mo |
| Homeowners insurance | $242/mo |
| PMI while above 80% LTV | $103/mo |
| Total monthly payment | $1,987/mo |
| Comparable rent | $1,300/mo |
What a rate move does to the Columbia payment
| Rate | Principal & interest |
|---|---|
| 5.5% | $1,278/mo |
| 6% | $1,349/mo |
| 6.5% | $1,422/mo |
| 7% | $1,497/mo |
| 7.5% | $1,573/mo |
| 8% | $1,651/mo |
Rent or buy in Columbia?
Against $1,300 a month in rent, over 7 years renting leaves you about $36,687 better off — $30,863 once 2.5% inflation is stripped out. See the Missouri rent-vs-buy page.
Where these numbers come from
Missouri medians come from editorial and are refreshed weekly. The Columbia figures index those state medians to the local market, so they track the same feed rather than going stale. Insurance and the state income tax rate are editorial. Treat everything here as a planning estimate, not a quote.