Ellsworth, Michigan.
Typical home $322,892 (+6.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,005 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,179 +6%
- $304,713$322,892 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $63,994 +25%
- $258,898$322,892 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.
- Ellsworth$1,695
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Ellsworth, MI rose 6.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ellsworth, Antrim County, Michigan
Ellsworth is a village of 367 people in Antrim County. Unemployment in Antrim County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Antrim County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ellsworth is a very small village in Antrim County, Michigan, where most people know their neighbors by name. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are mild and pleasant. Precipitation arrives as a mix of rain and melted snow spread through the year. Homes here are valued above what many people expect for a village this size.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops and the building trades. A good number work from home. Across Antrim County, the largest workplaces include Elk Rapids Schools, Anchor Lamina America and Burnette Foods. Unemployment in the county has eased a little over the past year, though the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. The Jordan River and Fisherman's Island State Park are both a short drive away, offering river scenery and a protected stretch of shoreline to explore. Lake Charlevoix is also a short drive off for time on the water. For a bigger outing, Boyne Mountain, a ski area, is a longer drive away.
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- 9%below the poverty line
- 10%work from home
What people in Antrim County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Antrim County had 5,061 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 56°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the East Jordan 2NW weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Antrim County
- Elk Rapids SchoolsSchool district163FTE
- Anchor Lamina AmericaPlating metals and metal products for the trade145
- Mancelona Public SchoolsSchool district124FTE
- Short's Brewing Company Bellaire PubAle brewing92
- Central Lake Public SchoolsSchool district72FTE
- Burnette FoodsJuices, fruit or vegetable, fresh, manufacturing71
- King OrchardsFruit and tree nut combination farming60
- Short's Brewing CompanyAle brewing55
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 921 people in all across the county; Ellsworth has one of its own. 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ellsworth’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 Antrim County.
Ellsworth home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ellsworth$322,892
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
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.
- Ellsworth16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Ellsworth address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ellsworth — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.