Fenwick, Michigan.
Typical home $228,477 (+7.0% in a year). Grand Rapids-Kentwood, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$644 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,873 +7%
- $213,604$228,477 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $39,805 +21%
- $188,673$228,477 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.
- Fenwick$1,199
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Fenwick, MI rose 7.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fenwick, Montcalm County, Michigan
The Census does not count Fenwick on its own, so the figures here are Montcalm County's. Half the county's households earn more than $67,344 a year and half less; 13% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 83% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Montcalm County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Montcalm County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fenwick is a town in Montcalm County, in Michigan's lower peninsula. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical resident is in middle age. Many adults have not gone on to a university degree, and incomes are below the county's average in some parts of the county, while the town has the same climate and local character as the rest of the county.
Work. Across Montcalm County, the largest employers include manufacturing, schools, hospitals and social care, retail shops, and the building trades. Unemployment has eased over the past year, and the county has added a small number of jobs since last year. Few people work from home, and most residents travel out to their jobs.
Things to do. The best known nearby attraction is Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, a botanical garden a longer drive away. The North Country Trail, a long-distance hiking trail, and Ionia State Recreation Area, a protected area, are also a longer drive away.
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- 24,511households
- 40.4median age
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Montcalm County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Montcalm County had 16,387 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 56°. About 73 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Greenville Nne weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Montcalm County
- Dicastal North AmericaCastings, unfinished, aluminum, manufacturing498
- State of Michigan Department of CorrectionsCorrectional institutions454
- Greenville Public SchoolsSchool district443FTE
- Corewell Health Greenville HospitalGeneral hospital381FTE
- Tenneco, GreenvilleBearings, automotive and truck gasoline engine, manufacturing296
- County of MontcalmExecutive offices, federal, state, and local288
- MeijerRetail285
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters282
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 50 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,376 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Montcalm County, 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 Montcalm County and the Grand Rapids-Kentwood, MI metro.
Fenwick home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fenwick$228,477
- 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.
- Fenwick5
Zip codes with a Fenwick address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fenwick — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.