Colon, Michigan.
Typical home $207,053 (+4.2% in a year). Sturgis, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$585 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,426 +4%
- $198,627$207,053 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,176 +23%
- $168,877$207,053 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.
- Colon$1,087
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Colon, MI rose 4.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Colon, St. Joseph County, Michigan
Colon is a village of 1,199 people in St. Joseph County. Half its households earn more than $58,542 a year and half less, against $66,425 across St. Joseph County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in St. Joseph County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in St. Joseph County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Colon is a village, and a small one, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and a good number of residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold, with January highs a little below freezing and snow most winters, while July brings warm days.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across St. Joseph County, some of the largest workplaces are AAM, which makes axle assemblies, Abbott, a dairy product manufacturer, and Sturgis Public Schools. The county has seen slightly fewer jobs than a year earlier, and the commute is a fairly short one for most people.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Rocky River and Austin Lake are a longer drive away, one a river and the other a lake. Pokagon State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive away. Families with children might make the trip to Fun Spot Amusement Park & Zoo, also a longer drive.
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- 669households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in St. Joseph County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Joseph County had 20,801 jobs in 2025, 1.4% 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 60°. About 41 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Three Rivers weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St. Joseph County
- AAMDifferential and rear axle assemblies, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing1,300
- AbbottDry condensed and evap dairy product manufacturing719
- Morgan Olson Plant 5Truck bodies assembling on purchased chassis378
- Sturgis Public SchoolsSchool district334FTE
- Three Rivers Community SchoolsSchool district326FTE
- TH Plastics - Plant 2Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing299
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters299
- Jergens PipingPlumbing and heating contractors275
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 63 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,897 people in all across the county; Colon has two of its own. 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
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively 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 Colon’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 St. Joseph County and the Sturgis, MI metro.
Colon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Colon$207,053
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Colon 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.
- Colon30.84%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Colon24
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Colon6
Zip codes with a Colon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Colon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.