Fairgrove, Michigan.
Typical home $159,642 (+4.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$474 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,666 +4%
- $152,976$159,642 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,839 +20%
- $132,803$159,642 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.
- Fairgrove$838
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Fairgrove, MI rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fairgrove, Tuscola County, Michigan
Fairgrove is a village of 514 people in Tuscola County. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Tuscola County was 5.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fairgrove is a very small village in Tuscola County, Michigan, where almost everyone owns the home they live in. Incomes in Fairgrove run a little lower than across the county, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Across Tuscola County, some of the biggest workplaces are Caro Center, Hills & Dales General Hospital and Caro Community Schools. The typical trip to work is a long one, and only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. The closest water is the Quanicassee River, a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the Saginaw River, a major river of the region, and to Bay City State Park, a protected area. The USS Edson, a museum, is also a longer drive away.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tuscola County had 12,153 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 42 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Caro Wwtp weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tuscola County
- Caro CenterPsychiatric hospital424FTE
- Kappen Tree Service,LLCArborist services381
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters318
- Hills & Dales General HospitalCritical access hospital304FTE
- Tuscola County Medical Care FacilitySkilled nursing facilities286
- Caro Community SchoolsSchool district275FTE
- Tuscola ISDSchool district256FTE
- Walbro Cass CityMotor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing252
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 29 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,963 people in all across the county; Fairgrove has none 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fairgrove’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 Tuscola County.
Fairgrove home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fairgrove$159,642
- 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.
- Fairgrove9
Zip codes with a Fairgrove address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fairgrove — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.