Augusta, Michigan.
Typical home $328,525 (+4.1% in a year). Kalamazoo-Portage, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$921 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,966 +4%
- $315,558$328,525 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $65,076 +25%
- $263,448$328,525 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.
- Augusta$1,724
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Augusta, MI rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Augusta, Kalamazoo County, Michigan
Augusta is a village of 864 people in Kalamazoo County. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Kalamazoo County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Augusta is a small village, and most homes in it are lived in by their owners. Typical home values run high, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might expect. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Kalamazoo County, some of the largest workplaces are Stryker, Bronson Methodist Hospital and Western Michigan University. Commutes are fairly long, and very few people work from home. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. Fort Custer Recreation Area, a protected area, lies in or beside town. A short drive away are Gull Lake, a lake, and the Gilmore Car Museum, a museum. The Air Zoo, an amusement park, is a longer drive away.
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- 336households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kalamazoo County had 122,119 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°. About 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Gull Lake Biological Station weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kalamazoo County
- Stryker Employer CompanyHospital beds manufacturing4,988
- Bronson Methodist HospitalGeneral hospital4,069FTE
- Pfizer Kalamazoo - Portage Road (2)Pharmaceutical preparations manufacturing3,035
- Western Michigan UniversityUniversity or college2,794
- Ascension Borgess HospitalGeneral hospital1,647FTE
- Kalamazoo Public SchoolsSchool district1,555FTE
- TargetDiscount department stores1,019
- Kalamazoo Valley Community CollegeTwo-year college1,015
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 326 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 52,486 people in all across the county; Augusta has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Augusta’s 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 Kalamazoo County and the Kalamazoo-Portage, MI metro.
Augusta home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Augusta$328,525
- 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.
- Augusta10
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Augusta4
Zip codes with a Augusta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Augusta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.