Allen, Michigan.
Typical home $209,874 (+5.2% in a year). Hillsdale, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$572 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,412 +5%
- $199,463$209,874 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $33,261 +19%
- $176,613$209,874 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.
- Allen$1,102
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Allen, MI rose 5.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Allen, Hillsdale County, Michigan
Allen is a village of 201 people in Hillsdale County. Unemployment in Hillsdale County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hillsdale County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Allen is a very small village in Hillsdale County, home to far fewer people than most places a visitor would think of as a town. Residents are older than in the typical American community, and many homes are valued below what is common across the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and the snowfall is heavy. Summers are warm, with July the warmest, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Hillsdale County, the largest workplaces include Hillsdale College, Hillsdale Hospital and the Martinrea plant in Jonesville. Jobs across the county have declined a little over the past year, and the county's unemployment rate has eased since a year ago. Most people travel a short distance to work, and very few work from home.
Things to do. The St. Joseph River is a short drive away, and the E.O. Grosvenor House, a museum, and Slayton Arboretum, a botanical garden, are close by as well. For a longer outing, Pokagon State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Michigan International Speedway, a race track, is also farther afield.
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- 10%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Hillsdale County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hillsdale County had 12,461 jobs in 2025, 3.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 44 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hillsdale weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hillsdale County
- Hillsdale CollegeUniversity or college1,029
- Martinrea INC JonesvilleJob stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing680
- Tenneco 929 Anderson Road, LitchfieldExhaust systems and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing350
- Hillsdale HospitalGeneral hospital331FTE
- Conagra BrandsMeat processed from carcasses300
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters278
- Hillsdale Community SchoolsSchool district186FTE
- Jonesville Community SchoolsSchool district149FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,446 people in all across the county; Allen has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Allen’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 Hillsdale County and the Hillsdale, MI metro.
Allen home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Allen$209,874
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Allen address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Allen — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.