Beulah, Michigan.
Typical home $428,018 (+6.1% in a year). Traverse City, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,390 (+162%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $24,616 +6%
- $403,402$428,018 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $104,589 +32%
- $323,429$428,018 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.
- Beulah$2,247
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Beulah, MI rose 6.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Beulah, Benzie County, Michigan
Beulah is a village of 313 people in Benzie County. Unemployment in Benzie County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 3.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Benzie County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Beulah is a very small village, with far fewer residents than most towns people think of when they picture Michigan. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and a great deal of snow falls over the season. Summers are mild and pleasant, with July the warmest month, and precipitation is spread through the year. Typical home values are high compared with many small towns, and a share of residents live below the poverty line.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and professional and business services. Across Benzie County, some of the largest workplaces are Crystal Enterprises, which runs a ski facility with accommodations, Benzie County Central Schools, and Paul Oliver Memorial Hospital. The county has gained jobs over the past year, and unemployment there is a little lower than it was a year earlier. The typical commute is short.
Things to do. Crystal Lake is a lake a short drive away, and the Betsie River is a river a short drive away. Crystal Mountain, a ski area, is also a short drive away, which suits the long snowy winters. Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, a protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 102households
- 14%below the poverty line
- 13 mintypical commute
What people in Benzie County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Benzie County had 5,028 jobs in 2025, 3.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 60°. About 93 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Frankfort 2NE weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Benzie County
- Crystal EnterprisesAlpine skiing facilities with accommodations534
- Benzie County Central SchoolsSchool district137FTE
- Graceland Fruit - Forrester RdFruit and vegetables, dehydrating, manufacturing102
- SpartanNashSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores94
- Paul Oliver Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital87FTE
- Frankfort-Elberta Area SchoolsSchool district78FTE
- Graceland Fruit - Main StFruit and vegetables, dehydrating, manufacturing55
- AJ's ExcavatingExcavation contractors39
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,123 people in all across the county; Beulah has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Beulah’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 Benzie County and the Traverse City, MI metro.
Beulah home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Beulah$428,018
- 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.
- Beulah16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Beulah6
Zip codes with a Beulah address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Beulah — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.