Brant, Michigan.
Typical home $212,130 (+7.3% in a year). Saginaw, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$603 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,509 +7%
- $197,621$212,130 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,820 +27%
- $167,309$212,130 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.
- Brant$1,113
- 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 Brant, MI rose 7.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brant, Saginaw County, Michigan
Brant is a township of 1,842 people in Saginaw County. Half its households earn more than $75,069 a year and half less, against $60,622 across Saginaw County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. Unemployment in Saginaw County was 5.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brant is a small township in Saginaw County, home to a population that skews older than most places. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and household incomes run well above the county's, with comparatively few people living below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn warm in July, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Saginaw County, some of the largest workplaces are Covenant Medical Center, Nexteer Automotive Saginaw Site and Hemlock Semiconductor Operations. The drive to work is a fairly long one, and only a small number of people work from home. Unemployment across the county has eased a little compared with a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Hartley Outdoor Education Center is a protected area for time outdoors, and the Mahoney Site is an archaeological site. Farther afield, the Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area, and the Saginaw River is the best known of several rivers in the region, all a longer drive away.
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- 695households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Saginaw County had 80,210 jobs in 2025, 0.9% 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 83° and lows near 62°. About 41 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Saginaw #3 weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Saginaw County
- Covenant Medical CenterGeneral hospital3,666FTE
- Nexteer Automotive Saginaw SiteMotor vehicle steering and suspension components except spring manufacturing2,973
- MorleyMarketing management consulting services1,983
- Hemlock Semiconductor OperationsGraphite, natural, manufacturing1,799
- CooperGeneral medical and surgical hospitals1,708
- SolarTechManufacturing of semiconductors and related solid-state devices1,403
- St. Marys of MichiganGeneral hospital1,258FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,179
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 214 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 30,786 people in all across the county; Brant has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Saginaw County, 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 Saginaw County and the Saginaw, MI metro.
Brant home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brant$212,130
- 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.
Zip codes with a Brant address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brant — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.