Alanson, Michigan.
Typical home $305,363 (+8.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$911 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $23,242 +8%
- $282,121$305,363 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,731 +25%
- $244,632$305,363 since Sep 2021
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.
- Alanson$1,603
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Alanson, MI rose 8.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Alanson, Emmet County, Michigan
Alanson is a village of 778 people in Emmet County. Unemployment in Emmet County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in restaurants and hotels, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Alanson is a small village in Emmet County, in the northern part of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, where most people know one another by sight. Residents are older than in many American communities, and a smaller share of adults hold a four-year degree than across the country. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings pleasantly warm days, and precipitation is spread through the year as both rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in shops. Across Emmet County, some of the largest workplaces are McLaren Northern Michigan, the Public Schools of Petoskey and the Inn at Bay Harbor. The typical commute is fairly short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Burt Lake, a lake a short drive away, and Burt Lake State Park beside it offer water and shoreline close to home. Petoskey State Park, another protected area a short drive away, is a second place to get outdoors. For history, Fort Michilimackinac is a fort a longer drive away.
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- 21%of adults have a degree
- 19 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Emmet County had 17,859 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 53°. About 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pellston Regional Airport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Emmet County
- Mclaren Northern MichiganGeneral hospital755FTE
- Public Schools of PetoskeySchool district339FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters294
- MeijerRetail243
- Inn at Bay HarborHotels, resort, without casinos229
- MantheiHardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing164
- Yazaki Northern MichiganContacts, electrical, manufacturing153
- Bay Bluffs Emmet County Medical Care FacilitySkilled nursing facilities143
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 42 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,112 people in all across the county; Alanson has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Alanson’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Emmet County.
Alanson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Alanson$305,363
- 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 Alanson listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Alanson27.55%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Alanson28
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Alanson9
Zip codes with a Alanson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Alanson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.