Bronson, Michigan.
Typical home $180,823 (+2.8% in a year). Coldwater, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$449 (+90%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,975 +3%
- $175,848$180,823 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $18,547 +11%
- $162,276$180,823 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.
- Bronson$949
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 32 years.
Typical home values in Bronson, MI rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bronson, Branch County, Michigan
Bronson is a city of 2,307 people in Branch County. Half its households earn more than $46,359 a year and half less, against $63,724 across Branch County; 21% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Branch County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Branch County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bronson is a small city in Branch County, Michigan, and most of the homes there are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run well below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than you might expect in a place this size. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many parts of the country, and typical home values are modest.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants and hotels. The largest workplaces in Bronson include JTEKT Column Systems North America Corporate, the Bronson Community School District and G&W Display Fixtures, Inc. Most people have a fairly short commute, and few work from home.
Things to do. Wall Lake is a lake a short drive away, and the Sauk River is a river a short drive away, both handy for time on the water. A longer drive brings you to Pokagon State Park, a protected area, and to Fun Spot Amusement Park & Zoo. Winters here are cold and snowy, with summers that turn pleasantly warm.
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- 839households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Branch County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Branch County had 15,400 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 43 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Coldwater St. School weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bronson
- JTEKT Column Systems North America CorporateSteering columns, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing115
- Bronson Community School DistrictSchool district114FTE
- G&W Display Fixtures, Inc (2)Furniture parts, finished wood, manufacturing50
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 165 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bronson’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 Branch County and the Coldwater, MI metro.
Bronson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bronson$180,823
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Bronson16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Bronson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bronson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.