Alpine, Michigan.
Typical home $401,026 (+5.7% in a year). Grand Rapids-Kentwood, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,208 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,689 +6%
- $379,336$401,026 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $97,017 +32%
- $304,009$401,026 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.
- Alpine$2,105
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Alpine, MI rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Alpine, Kent County, Michigan
Alpine is a township of 14,079 people in Kent County. Half its households earn more than $67,807 a year and half less, against $82,631 across Kent County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 60% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 40% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Alpine is a township in Kent County with a population on the younger side, and its incomes run below the county's. More homes here are lived in by their owners than rented, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Alpine are Kenowa Hills Public Schools, Walmart and Perrin Sportswear. Commutes are fairly short, and only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away are the John Ball Zoo and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum, and Lamberton Lake is close by for time on the water. A longer drive brings you to Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, a botanical garden with outdoor art.
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- 5,794households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 7%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 32° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 57°. About 48 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kent City Southwest weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Alpine
- Kenowa Hills Public SchoolsSchool district417FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters337
- Perrin SportswearCommercial screen printing251
- Menards"home centers"203
- Sam's ClubWarehouse clubs and supercenters195
- Commercial Tool & DieMachine tools, metal cutting, manufacturing172
- River City MechanicalPlumbing and heating contractors120
- Riveridge PackingFarm management services96
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,159 people in all. School districts come 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
- 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.
Alpine home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Alpine$401,026
- 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.
- Alpine8
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Alpine5
Zip codes with a Alpine address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Alpine — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.