Durand, Michigan.
Typical home $158,832 (-0.7% in a year). Lansing-East Lansing, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$444 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,087 -1%
- $159,919$158,832 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,833 +18%
- $134,999$158,832 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.
- Durand$834
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Durand, MI fell 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Durand, Shiawassee County, Michigan
Durand is a city of 3,507 people in Shiawassee County. Half its households earn more than $66,743 a year and half less, against $67,404 across Shiawassee County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Shiawassee County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Durand is a small city in Shiawassee County, with a population older than much of the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Household incomes run just below the county's, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Some of the largest workplaces in Durand are Durand Area Schools, Terex USA, and Durand Senior Care and Rehab Center. Commutes are fairly long, and some residents work from home. Unemployment across the county has eased somewhat over the past year, though the number of jobs there has dipped slightly.
Things to do. The Maple River, a short drive away, is the closest place to get outdoors. A longer drive brings you to Seven Lakes State Park, a protected area, and to the Flint Institute of Arts, a museum. Lake Fenton, also a longer drive away, offers another stretch of water.
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- 1,547households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Shiawassee County had 15,490 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Durand Wwtp weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Durand
- Durand Senior Care and Rehab CenterSkilled nursing facilities166
- Durand Area SchoolsSchool district156FTE
- Terex USAScreening machinery, stationary, manufacturing106
- Webcor Packaging SolutionsBoxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard80
- Riverside Market, Inc. DurandGrocery stores54
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 406 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Durand’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 Shiawassee County and the Lansing-East Lansing, MI metro.
Durand home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Durand$158,832
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Durand11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Durand5
Zip codes with a Durand address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Durand — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.