Burton, Michigan.
Typical home $156,823 (+1.0% in a year), asking rent $869 . Flint, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$465 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,609 +1%
- $155,214$156,823 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $27,995 +22%
- $128,828$156,823 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.
- Burton$823
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Burton, MI rose 1.0% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Burton, Genesee County, Michigan
Burton is a city of 29,715 people in Genesee County. Half its households earn more than $60,052 a year and half less, against $62,281 across Genesee County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Burton was 5.6% in August 2026, and Genesee County had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Burton is a city in Genesee County, Michigan, with an older population than the typical American community and incomes a little below the county's. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical home value and monthly rent are both modest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest; precipitation falls as both rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also common. Among the largest workplaces in Burton are General Motors, Walmart and Meijer. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Longway Park is in or beside town, and Chevy Commons is a park a short drive away. For museums, the Flint Institute of Arts and the Sloan Museum are both a short drive away, and Applewood Estate, a botanical garden, is close by as well.
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- 12,432households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Genesee County had 134,908 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 58°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Burton 4N weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Burton
- General MotorsGeneral warehousing and storage1,200
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters356
- Mid-States Bolt & ScrewFasteners merchant wholesalers309
- MeijerRetail218
- Clean Harbors209
- Bendle Public SchoolsSchool district179FTE
- Flint PackagingPreparing goods for transportation175
- Kroger Michigan KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores106
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,138 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of BurtonRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Burton’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 Genesee County and the Flint, MI metro.
Burton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Burton$156,823
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Burton listings, and the typical home goes pending in 16 days — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Burton29.62%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Burton16
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Burton108
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Burton49
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Burton$147,373
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Burton97.84%
Zip codes with a Burton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Burton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Burton
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48529 | Burton | 9,339 | $844 | $91,333 |
| 48509 | Burton | 8,645 | — | $183,685 |
| 48519 | Burton | 8,096 | — | $189,352 |