Eastpointe, Michigan.
Typical home $151,659 (+0.8% in a year), asking rent $1,467 (+4.6%). Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$452 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,211 +1%
- $150,448$151,659 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $24,506 +19%
- $127,153$151,659 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.
- Eastpointe$796
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Eastpointe, MI rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Eastpointe, MI rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Eastpointe runs $332/mo less than renting one. The gap peaked at $495 in Dec 2020.
That is $1,135 a month against $1,467 rent: a $796 mortgage payment, plus $176 property tax and $162 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Eastpointe
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,135
- Renting$1,467
- Mortgage only$796
Property tax · $176/mo 1.40% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Macomb County, MI
Insurance & upkeep · $162/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Eastpointe, Macomb County, Michigan
Eastpointe is a city of 34,318 people in Macomb County. Half its households earn more than $62,325 a year and half less, against $77,837 across Macomb County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Eastpointe was 13.1% in August 2026, and Macomb County had 1.4% 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. Eastpointe is a city in Macomb County, on the northeast side of the Detroit area. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values and rents are modest. Incomes in the city run below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow fall fairly steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and retail. Unemployment is higher now than a year ago, and Macomb County has fewer jobs than it did the year before. Some of the largest workplaces in Eastpointe are Eastpointe Community Schools, Genesis Chevrolet and Value World. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults here than is typical, and the usual commute is a fairly ordinary one for the Detroit area, with some people working from home.
Things to do. The Detroit Institute of Arts, a major art museum, and Belle Isle Park, a park with a botanical garden, are both a short drive away. For a longer outing, Lake Saint Clair is a lake a longer drive away, and the Detroit Zoo is also a longer drive from town.
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- 13,251households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Macomb County had 331,515 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 28 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Grosse Pointe Farms weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Eastpointe
- Eastpointe Community SchoolsSchool district398FTE
- Ejkj LogisticsCourier services85
- Genesis ChevroletAutomobile dealers, new only or new and used58
- East DetroitMail and parcel delivery54
- Eaton AcademySchool district35FTE
- Value World, Inc. (of Michigan)Used merchandise stores30
- Dean Transportation, Inc. - EastpointeBus operation, school and employee26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 253 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
- 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 Eastpointe’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 Macomb County and the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
Eastpointe home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Eastpointe$151,659
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Eastpointe listings, and the typical home goes pending in 15 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.
- Eastpointe28.33%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Eastpointe15
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Eastpointe148
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Eastpointe50
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Eastpointe$149,043
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Eastpointe99.62%
Zip codes with a Eastpointe address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Eastpointe — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.