Edwardsburg, Michigan.
Typical home $303,834 (+3.0% in a year). South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$831 (+109%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,897 +3%
- $294,937$303,834 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,633 +19%
- $256,201$303,834 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.
- Edwardsburg$1,595
- 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 Edwardsburg, MI rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Edwardsburg, Cass County, Michigan
Edwardsburg is a village of 1,304 people in Cass County. Half its households earn more than $52,500 a year and half less, against $70,443 across Cass County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Cass County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cass County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Edwardsburg is a village in Cass County, Michigan, close to the Indiana line. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run below the county's, with more people living below the poverty line than is typical. Winters are cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest and a good deal of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Cass County, some of the largest workplaces are Southwestern Michigan College, Creative Foam in Dowagiac, and Edwardsburg Public Schools. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than is common nationally, a typical commute is a modest drive, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, Fort St. Joseph is a historic fort site, and the Dowagiac River offers a quiet stretch of water close to town. The Henry A. Chapin House, also a short drive off, is a small museum. For a bigger day out, Notre Dame Stadium and the Studebaker National Museum are each a longer drive away.
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- 600households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Cass County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cass County had 9,582 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 62 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Niles weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cass County
- LaddGroup homes for the disabled without nursing care524
- Southwestern Michigan CollegeTwo-year college285
- Creative Foam - DowagiacFoam plastics products manufacturing283
- Edwardsburg Public SchoolsSchool district271FTE
- Dowagiac Union School DistrictSchool district262FTE
- Heritage Southwest Intermediate School DistrictSchool district185FTE
- Midwest Energy CooperativeCable laying, including underground178
- LakotaPlastics manufacturer172
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 38 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,076 people in all across the county; Edwardsburg has two of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Edwardsburg’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 Cass County and the South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI metro.
Edwardsburg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Edwardsburg$303,834
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 2 Edwardsburg 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.
- Edwardsburg41.76%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Edwardsburg40
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Edwardsburg10
Zip codes with a Edwardsburg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Edwardsburg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.