Copemish, Michigan.
Typical home $229,083 (+6.7% in a year). Cadillac, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$697 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,285 +7%
- $214,798$229,083 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $40,197 +21%
- $188,886$229,083 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.
- Copemish$1,202
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Copemish, MI rose 6.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Copemish, Manistee County, Michigan
Copemish is a village of 195 people in Manistee County. Unemployment in Manistee County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Manistee County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Copemish is a small village in Manistee County, home to far fewer people than most towns and quieter for it. Winters are colder than in most of the country and bring a great deal of snow, while summers are warm and the year is fairly wet. Homes here are valued below what many buyers elsewhere would expect to pay, and household incomes across the county run below the national level.
Work. Most residents who work do so in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Manistee County, the largest workplaces include Packaging Corporation of America, Munson Healthcare Manistee Hospital and Manistee Area Public Schools. The drive to work is long for many people, and only a small number work from home. Unemployment across the county has eased a little compared with a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Crystal Mountain, a ski area, is a short drive away, which suits the snowy winters. The Michigan Legacy Art Park, an outdoor museum, is also a short drive. For time on the water, Crystal Lake and the Manistee River are both a longer drive away.
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- 10%below the poverty line
- 38 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Manistee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Manistee County had 7,448 jobs in 2025, 2.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 59°. About 92 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Beulah 7SSW weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Manistee County
- Packaging Corporation of America340
- Michigan Great Lakes Virtual AcademySchool district328FTE
- MeijerRetail232
- Martin MariettaSpecialty171
- Munson Healthcare Manistee HospitalGeneral hospital171FTE
- Manistee Area Public SchoolsSchool district149FTE
- Morton Salt, Inc ManisteeSeasoning salt manufacturing92
- Kaleva Norman Dickson School DistrictSchool district79FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,265 people in all across the county; Copemish has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Copemish’s 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 Manistee County and the Cadillac, MI metro.
Copemish home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Copemish$229,083
- 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.
- Copemish7
Zip codes with a Copemish address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Copemish — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.