Arcadia, Michigan.
Typical home $414,589 (+15.2% in a year). Traverse City, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,233 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $54,695 +15%
- $359,894$414,589 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $92,552 +29%
- $322,037$414,589 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.
- Arcadia$2,176
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Arcadia, MI rose 15.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Arcadia, Manistee County, Michigan
Arcadia, in Manistee County, had 309 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $85,694 a year and half less, against $63,516 across Manistee County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 95% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 5% are rented. Unemployment in Manistee County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Manistee 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Arcadia is a very small community in Manistee County, and its residents are older than in most American towns. Almost everyone owns the home they live in, and household incomes run well above the county's, with very few people living below the poverty line. Winters are cold and heavy with snow, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm days and the year is fairly wet.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Manistee County, some of the largest workplaces are Packaging Corporation of America, Munson Healthcare Manistee Hospital and Manistee Area Public Schools. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Arcadia Lake is in or beside town, and Upper Herring Lake and Portage Lake are each a short drive away, with the Betsie River also close by. A longer drive brings you to Orchard Beach State Park, a protected area, and to Crystal Lake. The Ramsdell Theatre is also a longer drive away.
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- 2%below the poverty line
What people in Manistee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Manistee County had 7,448 jobs in 2025, 2.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 59°. About 92 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Beulah 7SSW weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Manistee County
- Packaging Corporation of America340
- Michigan Great Lakes Virtual AcademySchool district328FTE
- MeijerRetail232
- Martin MariettaSpecialty171
- Munson Healthcare Manistee HospitalGeneral hospital171FTE
- Manistee Area Public SchoolsSchool district149FTE
- Morton Salt, Inc ManisteeSeasoning salt manufacturing92
- Kaleva Norman Dickson School DistrictSchool district79FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,265 people in all across the county; Arcadia has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Arcadia’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 Manistee County and the Traverse City, MI metro.
Arcadia home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Arcadia$414,589
- 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 Arcadia address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Arcadia — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.