Byron, Michigan.
Typical home $300,157 (+4.9% in a year). Lansing-East Lansing, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$848 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,037 +5%
- $286,120$300,157 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,076 +21%
- $247,080$300,157 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.
- Byron$1,575
- 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 Byron, MI rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Byron, Shiawassee County, Michigan
Byron is a village of 545 people in Shiawassee County. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Shiawassee County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Byron is a very small village, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners, which is more than you would find in many towns. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in much of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail, and professional and business services also employing many people. Across Shiawassee County, some of the largest workplaces are Memorial Healthcare, Baker College and Owosso Public Schools. The typical commute is long, so many people travel some distance to their jobs, and a smaller number work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Seven Lakes State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Lake Fenton is a lake in the same longer-drive range. For something indoors, the Flint Institute of Arts is a museum, also a longer drive away. Most outings from Byron mean getting in the car.
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- 251households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 39 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Shiawassee County had 15,490 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 59°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Linden Wwtp weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Shiawassee County
- Memorial HealthcareGeneral hospital1,113FTE
- Baker CollegeUniversity or college926
- Owosso Public SchoolsSchool district368FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters328
- Pleasant View Shiawassee County Medical Care FacilitySkilled nursing facilities274
- Shiawassee Regional ESDSchool district264FTE
- Corunna Public SchoolsSchool district232FTE
- MeijerRetail217
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 42 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,860 people in all across the county; Byron has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Byron’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 Shiawassee County and the Lansing-East Lansing, MI metro.
Byron home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Byron$300,157
- 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.
- Byron16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Byron6
Zip codes with a Byron address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Byron — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.