Buckley, Michigan.
Typical home $282,260 (+3.6% in a year). Cadillac, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$843 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,892 +4%
- $272,368$282,260 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,790 +20%
- $234,470$282,260 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.
- Buckley$1,482
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Buckley, MI rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Buckley, Wexford County, Michigan
Buckley is a village of 775 people in Wexford County. Unemployment in Wexford County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wexford 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Buckley is a village, small enough that most people likely know one another by sight. Typical home values are well within reach of a household earning the county's median income, though a fair number of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January highs and lows staying well below freezing, while July is pleasantly warm, and rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and restaurants and hotels close behind. Across Wexford County, some of the largest workplaces are Cadillac Area Public Schools, Munson Healthcare Cadillac Hospital and Cadillac Casting. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than it was a year ago, though the county has slightly fewer jobs than the year before. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Duck Lake and Green Lake are both a short drive away, and Interlochen State Park, a protected area, is also a short drive from the village. For a longer outing, Crystal Lake is further afield, a bit more of a drive but still within reach for a day trip. Between the lakes and the park, much of the local pastime is time spent on or near the water.
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- 295households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Wexford County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wexford County had 13,082 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 25° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 55°. About 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fife Lake 2WNW weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wexford County
- AARPrefabricated buildings, metal, manufacturing472
- Cadillac CastingCastings, unfinished iron, manufacturing429
- Cadillac Area Public SchoolsSchool district421FTE
- Munson Healthcare Cadillac HospitalGeneral hospital414FTE
- Legacy LaborFarm labor contractors349
- Hutchinson Antivibration (Cadillac)Mechanical rubber goods manufacturing336
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters317
- MeijerRetail238
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 42 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,918 people in all across the county; Buckley has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Buckley’s census tracts, 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 Wexford County and the Cadillac, MI metro.
Buckley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Buckley$282,260
- 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.
- Buckley12
Zip codes with a Buckley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Buckley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.