Au Sable, Michigan.
Typical home $179,148 (+4.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$529 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,126 +4%
- $172,023$179,148 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,525 +26%
- $141,623$179,148 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 Sable$940
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Au Sable, MI rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Au Sable, Iosco County, Michigan
Au Sable, in Iosco County, had 1,453 people in the 2020 census. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Iosco County was 6.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in restaurants and hotels, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 Sable is a small community on the Lake Huron side of Michigan, and nearly everyone who lives here owns their home. Typical household incomes run below the county's, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a good deal of snow, while July brings warm days, and rain and melted snow fall through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in transport, warehouses and utilities, in shops, and in schools, hospitals and social care. Among the largest workplaces in Au Sable are Cooper Standard-Oscoda Plant and GT Plastics, both of which make parts for vehicles. Jobs across Iosco County were fewer last year than the year before, and unemployment there is no lower than it was a year ago. Most people have a fairly short drive to work, and few work from home.
Things to do. Van Etten Lake is a short drive away, as is the Wurtsmith Air Museum. A longer drive leads to Harrisville State Park, a protected stretch of the Lake Huron shore, and to Hubbard Lake, another lake for time on the water.
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- 803households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Iosco County had 7,624 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 58°. About 49 inches of snow and 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the East Tawas weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Au Sable
- Cooper Standard-Oscoda PlantFuel injection systems and parts, automotive and truck gasoline engine, manufacturing228
- GT PlasticsMotor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing26
- OscodaMail and parcel delivery20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 274 people in all. 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 high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Au Sable’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 Iosco County.
Au Sable home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Au Sable$179,148
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Au Sable 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 Sable29.01%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Au Sable27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Au Sable address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Au Sable — 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.