Beecher, Michigan.
Typical home $43,863 (+0.1% in a year). Flint, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$160 (+227%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $42 +0%
- $43,822$43,863 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $13,895 +46%
- $29,968$43,863 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.
- Beecher$230
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Beecher, MI rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Beecher, Genesee County, Michigan
Beecher, in Genesee County, had 8,840 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $37,515 a year and half less, against $62,281 across Genesee County; 31% of its people live below the poverty line. 49% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 51% are rented. Unemployment in Genesee County was 5.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Beecher is a small community with a young population, where the typical resident is younger than in most American towns. Incomes here run well below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than is usual, which makes for a town where many households are managing on tight budgets. Fewer homes are lived in by their owners than across most of the county, and typical home values are low.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Genesee County, some of the largest workplaces are Hurley Medical Center, McLaren Flint and Genesys Regional Medical Center. Few adults hold a four-year degree, a small share work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. Crossroads Village and Flint Park are in or beside town, the first a museum and the second an amusement park. A short drive away are the Flint Institute of Arts, a museum, and Sloan Museum, another. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days.
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- 3,480households
- 5%of adults have a degree
- 31%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Genesee County had 134,908 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 40 inches of snow and 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Flint 7W weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Genesee County
- Hurley Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,267FTE
- Mclaren FlintGeneral hospital1,826FTE
- Genesys Regional Medical CTRGeneral hospital1,684FTE
- Genesee CountyGeneral services departments, government1,370
- Genesee ISDSchool district1,363FTE
- General MotorsGeneral warehousing and storage1,200
- Dortch EnterprisesFast-food restaurants1,095
- McLaren Medical GroupPhysicians' offices995
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 292 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 42,828 people in all across the county; Beecher has one of its own. 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Beecher’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 Genesee County and the Flint, MI metro.
Beecher home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Beecher$43,863
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Beecher listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Beecher26.72%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Beecher26
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Beecher6
Zip codes with a Beecher address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Beecher — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.