Burr Oak, Michigan.
Typical home $193,624 (+5.5% in a year). Sturgis, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$543 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,148 +6%
- $183,476$193,624 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $29,725 +18%
- $163,899$193,624 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.
- Burr Oak$1,016
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Burr Oak, MI rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Burr Oak, St. Joseph County, Michigan
Burr Oak is a village of 753 people in St. Joseph County. Unemployment in St. Joseph County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Burr Oak is a small village in St. Joseph County, in southern Michigan, and it is home to far fewer people than most towns. Residents tend to be younger than in many small places, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Typical home values are modest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying close to freezing, while summers turn warm in July. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Across St. Joseph County, employment has slipped a little over the past year, and the jobless rate has held steady. Residents of Burr Oak work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in the building trades. Among the county's largest workplaces are AAM, which makes axle assemblies, Morgan Olson, which builds truck bodies, and Sturgis Public Schools. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a bit longer than a short hop across town.
Things to do. Much of the outdoor time near Burr Oak is spent on water, and the best known spots are all a longer drive away. Rocky River is a river good for a quiet afternoon, and Wall Lake is a lake for boating or fishing. Pokagon State Park is a protected area with trails and shoreline. For a day out with family, Fun Spot Amusement Park & Zoo is an amusement park, also a longer drive away.
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- 312households
- 3%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Joseph County had 20,801 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer 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 83° and lows near 62°. About 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lagrange weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St. Joseph County
- AAMDifferential and rear axle assemblies, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing1,300
- AbbottDry condensed and evap dairy product manufacturing719
- Morgan Olson Plant 5Truck bodies assembling on purchased chassis378
- Sturgis Public SchoolsSchool district334FTE
- Three Rivers Community SchoolsSchool district326FTE
- TH Plastics - Plant 2Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing299
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters299
- Jergens PipingPlumbing and heating contractors275
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 63 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,897 people in all across the county; Burr Oak has one of its own. 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
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Burr Oak’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 St. Joseph County and the Sturgis, MI metro.
Burr Oak home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Burr Oak$193,624
- 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.
- Burr Oak5
Zip codes with a Burr Oak address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Burr Oak — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.