Avoca, Michigan.
Typical home $305,371 (+4.8% in a year). Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$892 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,073 +5%
- $291,298$305,371 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,700 +23%
- $248,671$305,371 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.
- Avoca$1,603
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Avoca, MI rose 4.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Avoca, St. Clair County, Michigan
The Census does not count Avoca on its own, so the figures here are St. Clair County's. Half the county's households earn more than $71,270 a year and half less; 11% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 81% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in St. Clair County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in St. Clair County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Avoca is a small community in St. Clair County, on the eastern side of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow add up to a wet year. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners.
Work. Across St. Clair County, many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. The county had fewer jobs in the latest year than the year before, and unemployment has risen over the past year. Working from home is uncommon across the county.
Things to do. The St. Clair River is the best known of the nearby places, a river a longer drive away. Fort Gratiot, a fort also a longer drive away, and Jasper Woods, a protected area a short drive away, are other places to visit.
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- 67,816households
- 44.5median age
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in St. Clair County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Clair County had 41,734 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 56°. About 41 inches of snow and 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Yale Nnw weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St. Clair County
- Mclaren Port HuronGeneral hospital956FTE
- Port Huron Area School DistrictSchool district884FTE
- Anchor Bay School DistrictSchool district641FTE
- US FarathaneDoors and door frames, plastics, manufacturing549
- East China School DistrictSchool district518FTE
- St. Clair County RESA SchoolsSchool district515FTE
- Magna Electric Vehicle StructuresFuel pumps, electric, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing465
- Alta Gas SEMCO EnergyDistribution of natural gas424
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 119 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 13,477 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across St. Clair County, 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 St. Clair County and the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
Avoca home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Avoca$305,371
- 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.
- Avoca12
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Avoca address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Avoca — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.