Dryden, Michigan.
Typical home $397,817 (+6.0% in a year). Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,233 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,658 +6%
- $375,160$397,817 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $89,802 +29%
- $308,016$397,817 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.
- Dryden$2,088
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Dryden, MI rose 6.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dryden, Lapeer County, Michigan
Dryden is a village of 1,023 people in Lapeer County. Half its households earn more than $70,352 a year and half less, against $77,306 across Lapeer County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Lapeer County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dryden is a small village in Lapeer County, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn pleasantly warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in shops. Across Lapeer County, some of the largest workplaces are Conagra Brands, a fruit and vegetable canning operation, Lapeer Community Schools, and McLaren Lapeer Region, a general hospital. Commutes are fairly long, and only a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. General Squier Memorial Park is a park in or beside town. A short drive away, Lakeville Lake offers a lake close to home, and Lakeville Swamp is a protected area for quiet walks. Stony Creek Metropark is a larger park reached by a longer drive.
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- 417households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lapeer County had 22,229 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 59°. About 34 inches of snow and 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lapeer Wwtp weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lapeer County
- Conagra BrandsFruit and vegetable canning619
- Lapeer Community SchoolsSchool district604FTE
- Mclaren Lapeer RegionGeneral hospital537FTE
- Relyans MaxBolt, nut, screw, rivet, and washer manufacturing450
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters352
- Lapeer County Medical Care FacilityNursing homes338
- State of MichiganCorrectional institutions328
- Vintech IndustriesAwnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing315
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 66 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,304 people in all across the county; Dryden has none of its own. 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dryden’s census tracts, 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 Lapeer County and the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
Dryden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dryden$397,817
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Dryden 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.
- Dryden26.39%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dryden19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Dryden7
Zip codes with a Dryden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dryden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.