Auburn, Michigan.
Typical home $235,395 (+7.6% in a year). Bay City, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$717 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,532 +8%
- $218,863$235,395 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $64,660 +38%
- $170,736$235,395 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.
- Auburn$1,236
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Auburn, MI rose 7.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Auburn, Bay County, Michigan
Auburn is a city of 2,068 people in Bay County. Half its households earn more than $71,653 a year and half less, against $61,763 across Bay County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Bay County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Auburn is a small city in Bay County, Michigan, where most homes are lived in by their owners and incomes run above the county's. Poverty is low, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, while summers turn warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Bay County, some of the largest workplaces are BAY Regional Medical Center, Bay City School District and Michigan Sugar Company. The typical commute is a modest one, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, Bay City State Park is a protected area, and Dow Gardens is a botanical garden for slower afternoons. Wenona Beach Amusement Park is also a short drive off, and the Chippewa River is close by too. For a day out, the USS Edson museum is a longer drive away.
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- 949households
- 39%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bay County had 34,153 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 58°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Auburn 2NE weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bay County
- Bay Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,360FTE
- Bay City School DistrictSchool district791FTE
- Delta CollegeTwo-year college748
- Michigan Sugar CompanyRaw beet sugar manufacturing632
- Bay CountyGeneral services departments, government565
- General MotorsAluminum castings, unfinished, manufacturing432
- Bay-Arenac ISDSchool district403FTE
- SC Johnson Home Storage LLC - Wilder RdFood storage bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing402
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 106 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 11,666 people in all across the county; Auburn has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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 weatherVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Auburn’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 Bay County and the Bay City, MI metro.
Auburn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Auburn$235,395
- 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.
- Auburn15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Auburn7
Zip codes with a Auburn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Auburn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.