Attica, Michigan.
Typical home $312,259 (+5.3% in a year). Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$925 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,809 +5%
- $296,449$312,259 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,306 +20%
- $259,953$312,259 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.
- Attica$1,639
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Attica, MI rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Attica, Lapeer County, Michigan
Attica, in Lapeer County, had 962 people in the 2020 census. 98% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 2% are rented. Unemployment in Lapeer County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lapeer County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Attica is a small community in Lapeer County, home to fewer people than most towns that appear on a map. Nearly every home is lived in by its owner, which gives the place a settled, long-term feel. Winters are cold, with a good deal of snow, and summers are warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Lapeer County, some of the largest workplaces are Conagra Brands, Lapeer Community Schools and McLaren Lapeer Region. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than is typical across the country.
Things to do. General Squier Memorial Park is a park a short drive away, and the Younge Site, an archaeological site, is also close by. For a longer outing, Stony Creek Metropark offers more room to walk and be outdoors, and the Flint Institute of Arts is a museum in the same longer-drive range.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
What people in Lapeer County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lapeer County had 22,229 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 59°. About 34 inches of snow and 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lapeer Wwtp weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lapeer County
- Conagra BrandsFruit and vegetable canning619
- Lapeer Community SchoolsSchool district604FTE
- Mclaren Lapeer RegionGeneral hospital537FTE
- Relyans MaxBolt, nut, screw, rivet, and washer manufacturing450
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters352
- Lapeer County Medical Care FacilityNursing homes338
- State of MichiganCorrectional institutions328
- Vintech IndustriesAwnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing315
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 66 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,304 people in all across the county; Attica 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Attica’s census tracts, 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 Lapeer County and the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
Attica home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Attica$312,259
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Attica 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.
- Attica34.09%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Attica20
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Attica6
Zip codes with a Attica address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Attica — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.