Cedar Springs, Michigan.
Typical home $344,634 (+5.5% in a year). Grand Rapids-Kentwood, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,043 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,006 +6%
- $326,627$344,634 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $79,878 +30%
- $264,756$344,634 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.
- Cedar Springs$1,809
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Cedar Springs, MI rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cedar Springs, Kent County, Michigan
Cedar Springs is a city of 3,627 people in Kent County. Half its households earn more than $57,979 a year and half less, against $82,631 across Kent County; 22% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Kent County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cedar Springs is a small city in Kent County. Household incomes here run below the county's, and a good share of people live below the poverty line, while few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn pleasantly warm in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Many residents work in shops, restaurants and hotels, manufacturing, and in schools, hospitals and social care. The largest workplaces in town include Cedar Springs Public Schools, Display Pack, which makes packaging and plastics, and Intersect Healthcare of Cedar Springs, a skilled nursing facility. Few people work from home, and across Kent County the number of jobs has grown only slightly in the past year.
Things to do. Lake Bella Vista is a lake a short drive away, and the Rogue River is a river a longer drive away. Further afield, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park is a botanical garden and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum is a museum, both a longer drive away.
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- 1,495households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kent County had 417,408 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 57°. About 48 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kent City Southwest weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cedar Springs
- Cedar Springs Public SchoolsSchool district420FTE
- CS ManufacturingAutomobile trimmings, textile, manufacturing391
- Display PackPackaging, plastics, manufacturing240
- Intersect Healthcare of Cedar SpringsSkilled nursing facilities95
- Builders FirstSourceTruss manufacturing58
- Northwest Kent Mechanical CoMechanical contractors48
- Creative Technologies AcademySchool district46FTE
- CS Tool EngineeringMachine shops45
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,029 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cedar Springs’ 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 Kent County and the Grand Rapids-Kentwood, MI metro.
Cedar Springs home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cedar Springs$344,634
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Cedar Springs listings — 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.
- Cedar Springs36.03%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Cedar Springs39
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Cedar Springs19
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Cedar Springs$306,913
- United States$370,717
Zip codes with a Cedar Springs address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cedar Springs — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.