Covington, Michigan.
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to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$753 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
Living in Covington, Baraga County, Michigan
Covington, in Baraga County, had 99 people in the 2020 census. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Baraga County was 6.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Baraga County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Covington is a small community in Baraga County, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and it is one of the smaller places in the state. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and winters are cold, with the ground usually snowy from late in the year into spring. Summers are mild and warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year, so the seasons shape much of daily life.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Manufacturing and local shops also employ people here. Because the town is small, many people know one another through work, church and the local community.
Things to do. Rock River is a river a short drive away, and Agate Falls Scenic Site is a waterfall a longer drive away. Worm Lake is a lake in or beside town, so it is one of the easiest places to reach on foot or by a short trip.
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- 4%below the poverty line
What people in Baraga County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Baraga County had 2,965 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 21° and lows near 5°; warmest in July, with highs near 76° and lows near 54°. About 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Covington 1NNW weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Baraga County
- Baraga Correctional FacilityCorrectional institutions204
- Certainteed ceilingsPapier-mache statuary and related art goods manufacturing160
- Applied Solutions Group ASG Pettibone Main100
- Baraga County Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital78FTE
- L'Anse Area SchoolsSchool district75FTE
- Baraga Area SchoolsSchool district63FTE
- Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community CollegeTwo-year college55
- Laser NorthCoal chutes, sheet metal, manufacturing53
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 669 people in all across the county; Covington has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Covington’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 Baraga County.
Covington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Covington5
Zip codes with a Covington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Covington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.