Columbia is a great place to live. It’s lively and full of things to do and places to see.

Columbia City is a quaint, friendly community located in South Carolina. It has both an intimate rich heritage and a bright promising future. It is a community sharing a commitment to continuous growth and quality of life-style. Columbia City and its surrounding areas are home to some of South Carolina’s fastest growing manufacturing, technological and service-based businesses as well as expanding and new residential developments. Columbia is a city that has a great love of the arts as seen in...

Columbia City is a quaint, friendly community located in South Carolina. It has both an intimate rich heritage and a bright promising future. It is a community sharing a commitment to continuous growth and quality of life-style. Columbia City and its surrounding areas are home to some of South Carolina’s fastest growing manufacturing, technological and service-based businesses as well as expanding and new residential developments. Columbia is a city that has a great love of the arts as seen in its theatres, galleries, dance companies, orchestra, arts schools and outdoor art and murals. The city is enriched by artists who have chosen to live there. Many more exhibit their works in galleries, museums and at festivals. The Columbia Museum of Art excites visitors with a changing collection of fine art. The Koger Center for the Arts provides Columbia with theatre, music and dance performances from around the world. The Colonial Center, Carolina Coliseum and The Township Auditorium also provide a wide array of first class entertainment from some of today’s biggest stars. Columbia’s strength can be found within its eclectic neighborhoods. The City of Columbia works closely with neighborhood organizations to increase the lines of communications between neighborhoods and Columbia City Hall.One of the strongest links is the City’s support of the Columbia Council of Neighborhoods. The homes within the Columbia neighborhoods are not only beautiful, but are also very affordable. Currently the median cost of a home in Columbia is $81,600, the median mortgage payment is $553, and the median monthly rent is only $499. Columbia is an area with an abundance of natural beauty. South Carolina’s capital region is one of the few areas in the world that is lucky enough to have not one, but three rivers. Cutting through the heart of the Midlands, the Saluda and the Broad rivers meet in a rush of rapids, and merge together to form the tranquil Congaree. The beauty along the banks of these rivers is breath taking. Fish will soar into the air on a warm summer day, deer graze at the rivers’ shores. Egrets perch on moss-covered rocks and eagles fly gracefully overhead, in hunt of their prey. Spanish moss cascades from old hardwood trees, whose branches delicately outline the waters’ almost untouchable edges. One of Columbia’s most fascinating geographical features is its fall line, which is a boundary between an upland region and a coastal plain across which rivers from the upla