Bailey, Michigan.
Typical home $299,003 (+6.3% in a year). Muskegon, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$880 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,813 +6%
- $281,189$299,003 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,325 +26%
- $236,678$299,003 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.
- Bailey$1,569
- 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 Bailey, MI rose 6.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bailey, Muskegon County, Michigan
The Census does not count Bailey on its own, so the figures here are Muskegon County's. Half the county's households earn more than $65,024 a year and half less; 14% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 78% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Muskegon County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Muskegon County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bailey sits in Muskegon County in western Michigan. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and residents tend to be middle-aged. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across the county, the number of jobs slipped a little recently, while unemployment has come down from its earlier level. Few residents work from home.
Things to do. Hess Lake is the closest of the nearby places, a short drive away. Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, a botanical garden, is a longer drive away and is one of the best known sites in the area. The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum, also a longer drive away, honors the life of one of the country's presidents.
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- 67,732households
- 40.0median age
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Muskegon County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Muskegon County had 62,026 jobs in 2025, 2.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 57°. About 48 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kent City Southwest weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Muskegon County
- Trinity Health MuskegonGeneral hospital2,938FTE
- Howmet Aerospace Whitehall OperationsNonferrous metals foundries1,283
- Howmet Aerospace Whitehall OperationsFoundries, nonferrous metals884
- Johnson Technology875
- Newkirk Electric AssociatesElectrical contractors645
- Muskegon Public Schools of the City ofSchool district483FTE
- Mona Shores Public School DistrictSchool district482FTE
- Johnson Technology, Inc. - NortonAircraft engine and engine parts manufacturing471
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 193 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 25,029 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Muskegon County, 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 Muskegon County and the Muskegon, MI metro.
Bailey home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bailey$299,003
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Bailey address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bailey — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.