Albion, Michigan.
Typical home $140,000 (-0.5% in a year). Battle Creek, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$416 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $714 -1%
- $140,714$140,000 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $17,341 +14%
- $122,659$140,000 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.
- Albion$735
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 26 years.
Typical home values in Albion, MI fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Albion, Calhoun County, Michigan
Albion is a city of 7,700 people in Calhoun County. Half its households earn more than $39,885 a year and half less, against $63,177 across Calhoun County; 25% of its people live below the poverty line. 60% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 40% are rented. Unemployment in Calhoun County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Albion is a small city with a young population, a good deal younger than the county as a whole, which fits a place that has a college at its center. Incomes are well below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than is typical, though most homes are lived in by their owners. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many towns of its size, and the typical home is modestly priced.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and shops also employing a good number. The largest workplaces in Albion include Albion College, Knauf Insulation Plant 11, which makes wool fiberglass insulation, and Metz Culinary Management, a food service contractor. The typical commute is a moderate one, and a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. The Gardner House, a museum, is in or beside town. A longer drive brings you to Binder Park Zoo, Leila Arboretum, a botanical garden, and Lyon Lake, one of several lakes in the area. Winters are cold and the summers pleasantly warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
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- 2,365households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 25%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Calhoun County had 54,949 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 61°. About 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jackson Reynolds Field weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Albion
- Albion CollegeUniversity or college422
- Knauf Insulation Plant 11Manufacturer of wool fiberglass insulation201
- Metz Culinary ManagementFood service contractor90
- Avient Colorants USA, LLC - AlbionCustom compounding of purchased plastics resins86
- Team 1 PlasticsHardware, plastics, manufacturing84
- SpartanNashSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores79
- Albion71
- AlbionMail and parcel delivery30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 641 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24). 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 windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Albion’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Calhoun County and the Battle Creek, MI metro.
Albion home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Albion$140,000
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Albion listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Albion32.18%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Albion46
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Albion14
Zip codes with a Albion address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Albion — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.