Au Gres, Michigan.
Typical home $155,872 (+6.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$485 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,758 +7%
- $146,114$155,872 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,091 +31%
- $118,781$155,872 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.
- Au Gres$818
- 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 Au Gres, MI rose 6.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Au Gres, Arenac County, Michigan
Au Gres is a city of 945 people in Arenac County. Half its households earn more than $67,115 a year and half less, against $58,811 across Arenac County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Arenac County was 6.1% in August 2026, and the county had 3.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Arenac 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Au Gres is a very small city in Arenac County, and its residents are older than in most American communities. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical household incomes are higher than across the county as a whole. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm without being hot, with a steady amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Manufacturing is the leading line of work among residents, followed by schools, hospitals and social care, and then shops. The biggest workplaces in town are the Bopp-Busch Manufacturing Company plants, which make stamped metal parts for the automotive trade, and the Au Gres-Sims School District. Jobs across Arenac County have slipped over the past year, and unemployment there is only a little lower than it was a year ago.
Things to do. The Au Gres River runs in or beside town, and the Rifle River is a short drive away. For a longer outing, Tawas Point State Park and Au Sable State Forest are both protected areas a longer drive away, and Lake Saginaw offers open water at about the same distance.
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- 514households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 13%work from home
What people in Arenac County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Arenac County had 3,940 jobs in 2025, 3.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 58°. About 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Standish 4NE weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Au Gres
- Bopp-Busch Manufacturing Company - Plant 2Job stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing58
- Au Gres-Sims School DistrictSchool district51FTE
- Bopp-Busch Manufacturing Company - Plant 1Motor vehicle metal parts stamping48
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 106 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- 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 Au Gres’ 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 Arenac County.
Au Gres home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Au Gres$155,872
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Au Gres 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.
- Au Gres22.12%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Au Gres56
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Au Gres17
Zip codes with a Au Gres address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Au Gres — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.