Burt, Michigan.
Typical home $211,002 (+4.2% in a year). Saginaw, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$664 (+150%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,467 +4%
- $202,535$211,002 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,180 +42%
- $148,822$211,002 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.
- Burt$1,107
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Burt, MI rose 4.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Burt, Saginaw County, Michigan
Burt, in Saginaw County, had 1,194 people in the 2020 census. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% 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 people in Saginaw 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Burt is a small community in Saginaw County where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, a good deal more than is typical across the country. Very few residents live below the poverty line, and a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in most places. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are pleasantly warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing many. Across Saginaw County, some of the largest workplaces are Covenant Medical Center, Nexteer Automotive Saginaw Site and Hemlock Semiconductor Operations. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. A short drive away, Misteguay Creek offers a quiet waterway, and Clio Depot is a museum with local history. The Fosters Site, an archaeological site, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 435households
- 7%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Saginaw County 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 29° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 59°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Frankenmuth 1SE weather station, 11 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; Burt 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 weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Burt’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 Saginaw County and the Saginaw, MI metro.
Burt home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Burt$211,002
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Burt address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Burt — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.