Cooper, Michigan.
Typical home $276,396 (+5.7% in a year). Kalamazoo-Portage, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$792 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,847 +6%
- $261,549$276,396 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,350 +28%
- $216,046$276,396 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.
- Cooper$1,451
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Cooper, MI rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cooper, Kalamazoo County, Michigan
Cooper is a township of 10,418 people in Kalamazoo County. Half its households earn more than $82,864 a year and half less, against $72,532 across Kalamazoo County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Kalamazoo County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cooper is a township in Kalamazoo County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run higher than across the county as a whole. Few households live below the poverty line, and the population is of a middle age, with a fairly large share of adults holding a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs near freezing, while July is warm; a good deal of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Within Cooper itself, larger workplaces include Modine Manufacturing Company - Absolute Air, which makes warm-air furnaces, the Kalamazoo Nature Center, and Atrium Centers, a home for the elderly with nursing care. Unemployment across Kalamazoo County has eased a little over the past year, and the county has added a small number of jobs.
Things to do. Gull Lake is a short drive away for time on the water, and the Gilmore Car Museum is also a short drive off. For an outing in town, the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts is a museum a short drive away. A longer drive leads to Fort Custer Recreation Area, a protected area for walking and being outdoors.
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- 4,112households
- 38%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kalamazoo County had 122,119 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kalamazoo Battle Ck International Airport weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cooper
- Mechanical contractorPlumbers175
- Modine Manufacturing Company - Absolute AirFurnaces, warm air, manufacturing97
- Kalamazoo Nature CenterRecreation and education70
- Cripps Fontaine ExcavatingCommerical excavation46
- Atrium CentersHomes for the elderly with nursing care45
- PK Contracting, LLC. KalamazooPainting lines on highways, streets and bridges29
- Caporossi Construction24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 486 people in all. 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
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Kalamazoo County, 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 Kalamazoo County and the Kalamazoo-Portage, MI metro.
Cooper home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cooper$276,396
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Cooper 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.
- Cooper32.10%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Cooper32
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Cooper15
Zip codes with a Cooper address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cooper — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.