Escanaba, Michigan.
Typical home $185,064 (+9.0% in a year). Escanaba, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$609 (+168%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,351 +9%
- $169,712$185,064 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,614 +58%
- $117,450$185,064 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.
- Escanaba$971
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in Escanaba, MI rose 9.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Escanaba, Delta County, Michigan
Escanaba is a city of 12,450 people in Delta County. Half its households earn more than $45,369 a year and half less, against $57,809 across Delta County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Delta County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Escanaba is a small city in Delta County, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, with an older population than much of the country. Incomes run below the county's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than most people would expect, though a majority of homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold and snowy, and summers are mild and warm.
Work. Many residents work in shops, restaurants and hotels, schools, hospitals and social care, and manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in town are Walmart, St. Francis Hospital and Escanaba Area Public Schools. Commutes are short, and relatively few people work from home. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in most places, and unemployment across the county has eased a little over the past year.
Things to do. The Escanaba River runs in or beside town, and the Ford River is a short drive away. For a longer outing, Rock Island State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, as is Fayette Historic State Park.
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- 5,715households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 11 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Delta County had 13,886 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 56°. About 47 inches of snow and 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Escanaba weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Escanaba
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters324
- St. Francis HospitalCritical access hospital321FTE
- Escanaba Area Public SchoolsSchool district251FTE
- Bay de Noc Community CollegeTwo-year college213
- CR Meyer - EscanabaIndustrial building construction, general contractors135
- Elmer's County MarketFood stores132
- Delta-Schoolcraft ISDSchool district130FTE
- Menards"home centers"128
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,751 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- LightningRelatively high
- Hailrelatively high in parts of EscanabaRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Escanaba’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 Delta County and the Escanaba, MI metro.
Escanaba home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Escanaba$185,064
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Escanaba listings — 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.
- Escanaba15.12%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Escanaba47
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Escanaba16
Zip codes with a Escanaba address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Escanaba — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.