Corunna, Michigan.
Typical home $204,041 (+5.4% in a year). Lansing-East Lansing, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$586 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,461 +5%
- $193,580$204,041 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,706 +26%
- $161,335$204,041 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.
- Corunna$1,071
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Corunna, MI rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Corunna, Shiawassee County, Michigan
Corunna is a city of 3,046 people in Shiawassee County. Half its households earn more than $46,141 a year and half less, against $67,404 across Shiawassee County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 54% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 46% are rented. Unemployment in Shiawassee County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Corunna is a small city and the seat of Shiawassee County, with a population that skews a little younger than many Michigan towns. Incomes here run below the county's as a whole, and more households live below the poverty line than most would like. More homes are lived in by their owners than by renters, though not by a wide margin, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs hovering just below freezing, while summers are warm, July being the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and other services. The biggest workplaces in Corunna are Shiawassee Regional ESD Schools, Corunna Public Schools and the City of Corunna itself. Across Shiawassee County, jobs slipped slightly last year and unemployment is a little lower than it was a year earlier. Most people drive a moderate distance to work, and very few work from home.
Things to do. The Maple River is a short drive away and the closest of the nearby places to explore. Farther afield, Sleepy Hollow State Park is a protected area for time outdoors, and the Flint Institute of Arts is a museum a longer drive away. Those who like a day out with a view of animals can head to Potter Park Zoo, also a longer drive.
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- 1,476households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Shiawassee County had 15,490 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 58°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Corunna Northeast weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Corunna
- Shiawassee Regional ESDSchool district264FTE
- Corunna Public SchoolsSchool district232FTE
- City of CorunnaCity and town councils72
- Hutson INC of MI - CorunnaTractors, farm and garden, merchant wholesalers20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 92 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively 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 Corunna’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 Shiawassee County and the Lansing-East Lansing, MI metro.
Corunna home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Corunna$204,041
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Corunna 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.
- Corunna24.01%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Corunna21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Corunna10
Zip codes with a Corunna address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Corunna — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.