Commercial Real Estate Market in Columbia, PA
Updated monthly: sale, lease, property records, location trend, and more… · Last update: October 31
36 active listings and 426 off-market properties in Columbia, PA.
Market Trends
Columbia, PA spans 16.0 square miles in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Figures below refresh monthly; last updated 31 October 2026.
Office
Office vacancy in Columbia, PA runs 19.9% across the Northeast region in 2025, up from 13.1% in 2019.
Retail
Retail vacancy in Columbia, PA runs 6% across the Northeast region in 2025, little changed from 6% in 2019. Down from a 2020 peak of 7.1%.
Industrial
Industrial vacancy in Columbia, PA runs 7.6% across the Northeast region in 2025, up from 5.4% in 2019. Nearly 2.4x the 2021 low of 3.2%.
Multifamily
Across Lancaster County, multifamily space asks $172/SF to buy. Multifamily vacancy in Columbia, PA runs 5.6% across the Northeast region in 2025, up from 4% in 2022.
Zoning & Land Use
Land Use Mix share of zoned land by category
- Residential 49.9%
- Industrial 18.3%
- Civic 15.4%
- Open space 9.5%
- Commercial 7%
Largest Zones share of zoned land by district
Columbia, PA zones 1,543 acres across 17 districts. Commercial zoning covers 7% of zoned land, residential 49.9%, open space 9.5% and industrial 18.3%. The largest single district is High Density Residential at 15.1%. For commercial buyers the practical constraint is that only 25.3% of land carries a commercial or industrial designation.
HDR High Density Residential District: To primarily provide for single-family detached, twin and townhouse dwellings in a traditional setting at moderately high densities. To offer opportunities for higher densities if an exceptionally high-quality design is proposed that would be highly compatible with nearby homes. To carefully control conversions of exist…
Market overview
Demographics & Economy
Columbia, PA has 18,267 residents in 8,255 households. Density runs 1,141 people per square mile. Median household income here is $61,130 and median gross rent $1,067 a month.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Methodology & data sources
- Asking prices and medians
- There are 25 active for-sale and 11 active for-lease listings in Columbia, PA. The sale median is based on 20 of the for-sale listings that state a price per square foot; too few for-lease listings state a rent per square foot for a rent median. These are ASKING figures from live listings, not closed-transaction prices, and a figure resting on fewer than 10 listings says so where it is quoted.
- Vacancy rates
- Published per-sector market series, taken at the metro level where one exists and otherwise at the Census-region level — a chart reading "in <region> region" is a regional number, not this city's.
- Zoning and land use
- The current municipal zoning release: 1,543 zoned acres across 17 districts. Shares are of zoned land, so parcels the release leaves unclassified are excluded from the mix.
- Refresh
- The monthly aggregates close at the end of the previous month, so 31 October 2026 — not today — is the honest last update.
- Known limitations
- office vacancy is reported at Northeast region level, retail vacancy is reported at Northeast region level and industrial vacancy is reported at Northeast region level.
- Coverage
- Metrics below the 10-observation threshold fall back one geographic level. The geography used is named on each figure.
Compiled by the Realmo Data team · reviewed 31 October 2026 · How Realmo checks market page data · Report a data issue
