Ada, Michigan.
Typical home $665,728 (+6.0% in a year), asking rent $2,450 . Grand Rapids-Kentwood, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$283 (+9%) since Oct 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $37,567 +6%
- $628,162$665,728 since Sep 2025
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Ada$3,494
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Ada, MI rose 6.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ada, Kent County, Michigan
Ada is a township of 14,388 people in Kent County. Half its households earn more than $168,468 a year and half less, against $82,631 across Kent County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. Unemployment in Kent County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Ada is a township in Kent County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and where incomes run well above the county's. Poverty is rare, and a very large share of adults hold a four-year degree. Homes are costly and rents are high, and the people living here are somewhat older than in many towns. Winters are cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in professional and business services, with manufacturing and shops close behind. Among the largest workplaces in Ada are Access Business Group, which makes detergents and vitamin preparations, Mi Premier Logistics, an express delivery firm, and Dan Vos Construction Company. A typical commute is fairly short, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Thornapple River runs in or beside town. A short drive away are Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, a botanical garden, and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum. The North Country Trail is also a short drive off for walking, and John Ball Zoo is a longer drive away.
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- 5,176households
- 72%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kent County had 417,408 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 78 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Grand Rapids weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ada
- Access Business GroupDetergents manufacturing2,775
- Access Business GroupVitamin preparations manufacturing367
- Mi Premier LogisticsExpress delivery services244
- Dan Vos Construction Company95
- Erhardt Construction83
- Ada Valley Meat CompanyFrozen meats merchant wholesalers47
- Waltz-Holst Blow Pipe CoAir cowls, sheet metal, manufacturing45
- SpartanNashSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores42
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,024 people in all. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Kent County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Kent County and the Grand Rapids-Kentwood, MI metro.
Ada home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ada$665,728
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Ada listings, and the typical home goes pending in 11 days — the market is heating up.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Ada24.81%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ada51
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Ada24
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Ada101.28%
Zip codes with a Ada address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ada — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.