Deckerville, Michigan.
Typical home $193,188 (+1.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$455 (+81%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,688 +2%
- $189,501$193,188 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $15,158 -7%
- $208,346$193,188 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.
- Deckerville$1,014
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Deckerville, MI rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Deckerville, Sanilac County, Michigan
Deckerville is a village of 877 people in Sanilac County. 65% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Sanilac County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Deckerville is a small village in Sanilac County, in Michigan's Thumb region, and it is one of the smaller places on the map. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values sit at a modest level. Incomes run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than is typical, so this is a place where many households watch their budgets closely.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and restaurants also providing jobs. Ciena Healthcare Management, Deckerville Community School District and Deckerville Community Hospital are among the biggest workplaces in the village. Commutes are short, few people work from home, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Across Sanilac County, unemployment is lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are comfortably warm, so the warmer months suit time outdoors. The White River is a river a longer drive away, and Sanilac Petroglyphs Historic State Park, an archaeological site, is also a longer drive away. The Sanilac Shores Underwater Preserve is a protected area a longer drive away, and it makes a quieter outing for those who like the water.
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- 390households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sanilac County had 10,347 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 60°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sandusky weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Deckerville
- Ciena Healthcare ManagementNursing care facilities -skilled nursing facilities107
- Deckerville Community School DistrictSchool district104FTE
- Deckerville Community HospitalCritical access hospital56FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 107 people in all. 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Deckerville’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 Sanilac County.
Deckerville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Deckerville$193,188
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Deckerville 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.
- Deckerville29.24%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Deckerville21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Deckerville4
Zip codes with a Deckerville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Deckerville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.