Clawson, Michigan.
Typical home $283,076 (+1.1% in a year), asking rent $1,578 . Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$755 (+103%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,204 +1%
- $279,872$283,076 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,257 +20%
- $235,819$283,076 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.
- Clawson$1,486
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Clawson, MI rose 1.1% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Clawson, Oakland County, Michigan
Clawson is a city of 11,389 people in Oakland County. Half its households earn more than $88,636 a year and half less, against $97,760 across Oakland County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Oakland County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Clawson is a small city in Oakland County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Incomes run a little below the county's, and typical home values and rents sit in the middle of the metro Detroit range. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Clawson are Clawson Public Schools, Mission Point Nursing & Physical Rehabilitation Center of Clawson and HB Fuller Company. Many people work from home, and the typical commute is moderate.
Things to do. The Detroit Zoo and the Pontiac Silverdome, a stadium, are both a short drive away. The Detroit Institute of Arts, a museum, is a longer drive away, as is Lake Saint Clair, for a day by the water.
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- 5,680households
- 46%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 22%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Oakland County had 720,266 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 63°. About 36 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pontiac Wwtp weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clawson
- Clawson Public SchoolsSchool district219FTE
- Mission Point Nursing & Physical Rehabilitation Center of ClawsonSkilled nursing facilities91
- HB Fuller CompanyCoating metals and metal products for the trade79
- Foam N More & UpholsteryMattresses manufacturing31
- ClawsonMail and parcel delivery24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 225 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
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Clawson’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Oakland County and the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
Clawson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Clawson$283,076
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Clawson listings, and the typical home goes pending in 10 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.
- Clawson31.83%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Clawson39
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Clawson23
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Clawson$326,888
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Clawson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Clawson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.