Brandon, Michigan.
Typical home $440,370 (+2.6% in a year). Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,270 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,011 +3%
- $429,359$440,370 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $88,404 +25%
- $351,966$440,370 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.
- Brandon$2,311
- 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 Brandon, MI rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brandon, Oakland County, Michigan
Brandon is a township of 15,384 people in Oakland County. Half its households earn more than $93,523 a year and half less, against $97,760 across Oakland County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Oakland County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brandon is a township where nearly everyone lives in a home they own, and residents are older than in many places. Household incomes sit a little below the county's, and typical home values are well above what many people expect to pay. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days, and rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in shops. The largest workplaces in Brandon include the Brandon School District, Hamilton's Propane and ABM Industries. Commutes are on the long side, and a good number of people work from home. Across Oakland County, unemployment is higher than a year ago and jobs have slipped slightly.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Ortonville Recreation Area and Metamora-Hadley Recreation Area are both protected areas a short drive away, and the Clinton River is also a short drive from town. Pine Knob Music Theatre, also a short drive away, hosts concerts. The Detroit Zoo is a longer drive for a day out.
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- 6,143households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 20%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Oakland County had 720,266 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 59°. About 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Goodrich weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brandon
- Brandon School District in the Counties of Oakland and LapeeSchool district331FTE
- Hamilton's PropanePropane bulk stations and terminals52
- First Student39
- ABM IndustriesService to buildings and dwellings20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 111 people in all. School districts come 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Oakland County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Oakland County and the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
Brandon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brandon$440,370
- 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.
- Brandon5
Zip codes with a Brandon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brandon — 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.