Erie, Michigan.
. Monroe, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$753 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
Living in Erie, Monroe County, Michigan
Erie is a township of 4,299 people in Monroe County. Half its households earn more than $71,250 a year and half less, against $77,335 across Monroe County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Monroe County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Erie is a small township in Monroe County, Michigan, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run somewhat below the county's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than you might expect for a place of this kind. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and temperatures that stay well below freezing overnight, while summers turn warm by July.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades and in shops. Across Monroe County, some of the largest workplaces are DTE Energy, Monroe Regional Hospital and Monroe Public Schools. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, a typical commute is fairly long, and a small share of people work from home. Jobs in the county have slipped a little over the past year, and unemployment is easing from a year ago.
Things to do. A short drive away, Maumee Bay State Park is a protected area on the water, and the National Museum of the Great Lakes is a museum devoted to the region's shipping history. The Toledo Museum of Art, also a short drive off, is the nearest of the larger cultural stops. The Maumee River, another short drive away, offers a place to be by the water.
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- 1,605households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Monroe County had 40,577 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Monroe weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Monroe County
- DTE EnergyNuclear electric power distibution781
- Monroe Regional HospitalGeneral hospital741FTE
- Monroe Public SchoolsSchool district723FTE
- StellantisManufacturing623
- Ford Motor CompanyWrapping machinery manufacturing591
- Monroe ISDSchool district569FTE
- Gerdau - Monroe MillElectrometallurgical steel manufacturing561
- YanfengMotor vehicle interior systems manufacturing540
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 113 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,506 people in all across the county; Erie has two of its own. 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Monroe County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Monroe County and the Monroe, MI metro.
Erie home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Erie11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Erie address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Erie — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.