Bitely, Michigan.
Typical home $173,087 (+4.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$521 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,264 +4%
- $165,823$173,087 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,648 +17%
- $147,439$173,087 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.
- Bitely$908
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Bitely, MI rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bitely, Newaygo County, Michigan
The Census does not count Bitely on its own, so the figures here are Newaygo County's. Half the county's households earn more than $63,304 a year and half less; 13% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 86% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Newaygo County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Newaygo 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bitely is a small town in Newaygo County, in west-central Michigan. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and more residents live below the poverty line than across the country as a whole. Incomes here are below the national median, and the population is older on average than across the country.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in the building trades. Unemployment across the county has eased somewhat over the past year, though the number of jobs dipped slightly in the most recent year. Few people work from home, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country.
Things to do. Manistee National Forest, a protected area a short drive away, offers a large expanse of woods for walking and camping. Shrine of the Pines, a museum also a short drive away, is one of the best known places in the area. Rollway Lake, a lake a short drive away, is a quiet spot for time on the water.
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- 19,651households
- 42.7median age
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Newaygo County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Newaygo County had 11,796 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 56°. About 75 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hesperia Wnw weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Newaygo County
- Magna Mirrors-Newaygo DivisionOil filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing868
- Nestle Gerber Products CompanyInfant and junior food canning495
- Corewell Health GerberCritical access hospital323FTE
- Fremont Public School DistrictSchool district273FTE
- County of NewaygoGeneral services departments, government260
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters259
- Newaygo County RESA SchoolsSchool district225FTE
- MeijerRetail222
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,630 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Newaygo 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 Newaygo County.
Bitely home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bitely$173,087
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Bitely 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bitely20
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Bitely address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bitely — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.