Clinton, Michigan.
Typical home $274,363 (+5.0% in a year). Adrian, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$767 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,145 +5%
- $261,218$274,363 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $54,398 +25%
- $219,966$274,363 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.
- Clinton$1,440
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Clinton, MI rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Clinton, Lenawee County, Michigan
Clinton is a village of 2,517 people in Lenawee County. Half its households earn more than $82,768 a year and half less, against $70,518 across Lenawee County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. Unemployment in Lenawee County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Clinton is a small village in Lenawee County, and nearly all of its homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run higher than across the county, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect for a place this size. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and freezing days common, while July brings warm summer afternoons, and the year's moisture comes as a mix of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades, and transport, warehousing and utilities also well represented. Across Lenawee County, some of the largest workplaces are Adrian Steel Company, Promedica Hickman Hospital and Adrian Public Schools. Many people travel a fair way to work, and a share do their jobs from home.
Things to do. Close by, Hidden Lake Gardens is a botanical garden a short drive away, and Hayes State Park is a protected area, also a short drive off. Watkins Lake State Park and County Preserve is another protected area a short drive away, a quiet option for a walk. For a longer outing, Michigan Stadium is a longer drive away, as is the University of Michigan Museum of Art.
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- 979households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lenawee County had 25,857 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 59°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tecumseh weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lenawee County
- Adrian Steel CompanyShelving manufacturing487
- Promedica Hickman HospitalGeneral hospital455FTE
- Adrian Public SchoolsSchool district405FTE
- Adrian CollegeUniversity or college379
- Kirchhoff-Automotive- TecumsehJob stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing379
- Siena Heights UniversityUniversity or college362
- Lenawee ISDSchool district354FTE
- State of Michigan-corrections-dept 47/agency 29/GUS Harrison FACCorrectional institutions346
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 75 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,381 people in all across the county; Clinton has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- LightningRelatively 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 Clinton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Lenawee County and the Adrian, MI metro.
Clinton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Clinton$274,363
- 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.
- Clinton9
Zip codes with a Clinton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Clinton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.