Covert, Michigan.
Typical home $235,548 (+7.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$588 (+91%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,468 +8%
- $219,080$235,548 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,368 +14%
- $207,180$235,548 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.
- Covert$1,236
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Covert, MI rose 7.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Covert, Van Buren County, Michigan
Covert is a township of 2,510 people in Van Buren County. Half its households earn more than $37,697 a year and half less, against $68,114 across Van Buren County. Unemployment in Van Buren County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Van Buren 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Covert is a township in Van Buren County, in southwest Michigan. Household incomes here run well below the county's, and homes are valued at a level that sits comfortably above what local paychecks might suggest. Few adults hold a four-year degree compared with many places, and winters are cold, with January the coldest month and snow and rain adding up across the year, while July brings warm days.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Covert are Holtec International, Covert Public Schools and Consumers Energy. Commutes tend to be long, and relatively few people work from home, so many residents travel some distance to their jobs.
Things to do. Van Buren Trail State Park runs in or beside town, a protected area for walking and getting outdoors close to home. A short drive away are Paw Paw Lake and Van Buren State Park, along with the Michigan Maritime Museum for a look at the region's lakeshore past. Those willing to go a longer drive can reach Silver Beach Amusement Park.
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- 900households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 34 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Van Buren County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Van Buren County had 21,582 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 66°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the South Haven weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Covert
- Holtec InternationalSite remediation services1,400
- Covert Public SchoolsSchool district51FTE
- Consumers EnergyElectric power generation, fossil fuel29
- Creative Dining ServicesCafeteria food services contractors23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,452 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
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Van Buren County, 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 Van Buren County.
Covert home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Covert$235,548
- 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.
- Covert12
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Covert address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Covert — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.