Au Train, Michigan.
Typical home $243,541 (+11.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$778 (+156%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $24,285 +11%
- $219,256$243,541 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $68,468 +39%
- $175,073$243,541 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 Train$1,278
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Au Train, MI rose 11.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Au Train, Alger County, Michigan
Au Train is a township of 1,019 people in Alger County. Half its households earn more than $64,015 a year and half less, against $61,286 across Alger County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 97% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 3% are rented. Unemployment in Alger County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in construction, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 Train is a small township on the Upper Peninsula, home to a small community at the most recent census. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and household incomes run a little above the county's. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are mild and warm in July. A good deal of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in the building trades, in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in shops. Across Alger County, some of the largest workplaces are Neenah Paper, the State of Michigan's correctional institutions, and Timber Products Company Michigan, which makes hardwood veneer. Commutes are fairly long, and a modest share of people work from home.
Things to do. The Au Train River is a short drive away, as are several waterfalls, including Scott Falls and Wagner Falls. Farther off, a longer drive brings you to Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, a protected stretch of shoreline. The Hiawatha National Forest, also a longer drive away, offers more protected woodland to explore.
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- 508households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Alger County had 2,678 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 76° and lows near 52°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chatham Southeast weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Alger County
- Neenah PaperPaper, coated, laminated or treated, made in paper mills220
- State of MichiganCorrectional institutions198
- Timber Products Company MichiganHardwood veneer116
- Munising Public SchoolsSchool district94FTE
- Cross General ContractingBuilding, residential, addition, alteration and renovation72
- MediLodge of MunisingNursing homes68
- Munising Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital60FTE
- National Park ServiceFederal government · Department of the Interior47
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 767 people in all across the county; Au Train has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Alger County, 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 Alger County.
Au Train home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Au Train$243,541
- 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.
- Au Train8
Zip codes with a Au Train address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Au Train — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.