Britton, Michigan.
Typical home $285,735 (+5.8% in a year). Adrian, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$814 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,642 +6%
- $270,093$285,735 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $54,989 +24%
- $230,746$285,735 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.
- Britton$1,500
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Britton, MI rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Britton, Lenawee County, Michigan
Britton is a village of 537 people in Lenawee County. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Lenawee County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lenawee County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Britton is a very small village in Lenawee County, in southeastern Michigan, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Incomes run below the county's, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs hovering around freezing, while July brings warm days. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing many. Across Lenawee County, some of the largest workplaces are Adrian Steel Company, Promedica Hickman Hospital and Adrian Public Schools. The typical commute is fairly long, and a modest number of people work from home. Unemployment across the county has eased a little compared with a year earlier, and the number of jobs has held roughly steady.
Things to do. The nearest outdoor spot is Little River Raisin, a river a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Hidden Lake Gardens, a botanical garden, and to the Toledo Museum of Art. Michigan Stadium, the large football stadium, is also a longer drive away.
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- 270households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What people in Lenawee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lenawee County had 25,857 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 59°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tecumseh weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lenawee County
- Adrian Steel CompanyShelving manufacturing487
- Promedica Hickman HospitalGeneral hospital455FTE
- Adrian Public SchoolsSchool district405FTE
- Adrian CollegeUniversity or college379
- Kirchhoff-Automotive- TecumsehJob stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing379
- Siena Heights UniversityUniversity or college362
- Lenawee ISDSchool district354FTE
- State of Michigan-corrections-dept 47/agency 29/GUS Harrison FACCorrectional institutions346
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 75 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,381 people in all across the county; Britton has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Britton’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 Lenawee County and the Adrian, MI metro.
Britton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Britton$285,735
- 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.
- Britton15
Zip codes with a Britton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Britton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.