Engadine, Michigan.
Typical home $201,576 (+12.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$566 (+115%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $21,944 +12%
- $179,632$201,576 since Sep 2025
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.
- Engadine$1,058
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Engadine, MI rose 12.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Engadine, Mackinac County, Michigan
The Census does not count Engadine on its own, so the figures here are Mackinac County's. Half the county's households earn more than $63,909 a year and half less; 16% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 78% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Mackinac County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mackinac County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Engadine is a small town in Mackinac County, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters here are colder than in most of the country, while summers are mild and warm. Its residents are older on the whole than most Americans, and fewer adults hold a degree than across the country.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or in government. Unemployment is low, though the county had somewhat fewer jobs in the most recent year than the year before. Few people work from home, so most daily work takes place outside the house.
Things to do. The Upper Millecoquins River is in or beside the town itself, so it is the easiest place to spend time outdoors. Garlyn Zoo and Manistique Lake are both a longer drive away, and they make a fuller day out for those willing to travel.
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- 5,199households
- 53.0median age
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Mackinac County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mackinac County had 4,804 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 53°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Engadine Mdot weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mackinac County
- Grand HotelHotel management services404
- Mackinac Straits Health SystemCritical access hospital198FTE
- Chippewa Hotel CompanyHotels, seasonal, without casinos105
- Mackinac Island Ferry CompanyCoastal passenger transportation to and from domestic ports100
- St. Ignace Area SchoolsSchool district59FTE
- Engadine Consolidated SchoolsSchool district55FTE
- The Inn At Stonecliffe5454
- Flotation Docking SystemsDock construction33
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 815 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Mackinac County, 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 Mackinac County.
Engadine home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Engadine$201,576
- 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.
- Engadine6
Zip codes with a Engadine address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Engadine — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.