Baraga, Michigan.
Typical home $171,368 (+14.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$487 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,090 +14%
- $150,278$171,368 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $33,774 +25%
- $137,594$171,368 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.
- Baraga$899
- 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 Baraga, MI rose 14.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Baraga, Baraga County, Michigan
Baraga is a village of 1,883 people in Baraga County. Half its households earn more than $43,558 a year and half less, against $55,327 across Baraga County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 50% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 50% are rented. Unemployment in Baraga County was 6.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Baraga is a small village in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, home to a modest number of people. Residents are younger than in many small towns, and incomes run below the county's, with more households living below the poverty line than is typical. Homes are lived in by their owners less often than across much of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and daytime highs staying below freezing, while summers are mild and pleasantly warm.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, then government and shops. Among the largest workplaces in Baraga are Baraga Correctional Facility, Applied Solutions Group ASG Pettibone Main and Baraga Telephone Company. Unemployment across Baraga County has eased a little over the past year, though the number of jobs there has slipped slightly. Very few people work from home.
Things to do. Baraga State Park is a protected area in or beside town, and Falls River runs there too. The Sand Point Site, an archaeological site, is also in or beside town. A short drive away is the Silver River, and for a longer outing Lake Michigamme is a lake a longer drive away.
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- 543households
- 6%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Baraga County had 2,965 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 54°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Baraga 7NW weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Baraga
- Baraga Correctional FacilityCorrectional institutions204
- Applied Solutions Group ASG Pettibone Main100
- Baraga Telephone CompanyTelecommunications carriers, wired39
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 343 people in all. 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 wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Baraga’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 Baraga County.
Baraga home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Baraga$171,368
- 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.
- Baraga9
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Baraga address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Baraga — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.