Dewitt, Michigan.
Typical home $323,191 (+2.0% in a year), asking rent $1,809 . Lansing-East Lansing, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$840 (+98%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,426 +2%
- $316,765$323,191 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,917 +17%
- $276,274$323,191 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.
- Dewitt$1,696
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Dewitt, MI rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dewitt, Clinton County, Michigan
Dewitt is a city of 4,776 people in Clinton County. Half its households earn more than $110,341 a year and half less, against $88,210 across Clinton County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Clinton County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dewitt is a small city in Clinton County, Michigan, where most homes are lived in by their owners and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm without being extreme. A fair amount of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, in banks, insurance and property, and in shops. Among the largest workplaces in Dewitt are DeWitt Public Schools, DARTS Delivery Services and Capital steel and wire. A typical commute is fairly short, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. For a day out, the Potter Park Zoo and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum are both a short drive away. Frances Park is also a short drive away if you want somewhere to walk. Sleepy Hollow State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away and suits a fuller outing.
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- 1,762households
- 51%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 20%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clinton County had 18,741 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 50 inches of snow and 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lansing Capital City Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dewitt
- DeWitt Public SchoolsSchool district321FTE
- DARTS Delivery ServicesCouriers and express delivery services90
- Capital steel and wireBars, steel, made in cold rolling mills made from purchased steel41
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 131 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 windRelatively high
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of DewittRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Dewitt’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Clinton County and the Lansing-East Lansing, MI metro.
Dewitt home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dewitt$323,191
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Dewitt listings, and the typical home goes pending in 7 days — the market is heating up.
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.
- Dewitt23.44%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Dewitt7
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dewitt44
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Dewitt22
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Dewitt$361,301
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Dewitt address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dewitt — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.