Freeport, Michigan.
Typical home $325,989 (+7.8% in a year). Grand Rapids-Kentwood, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$988 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $23,510 +8%
- $302,479$325,989 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $78,154 +32%
- $247,835$325,989 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.
- Freeport$1,711
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Freeport, MI rose 7.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Freeport, Barry County, Michigan
Freeport is a village of 542 people in Barry County. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Barry County was 4.6% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Freeport is a small village in Barry County, Michigan, and one of the smaller places a person can live in the state. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, which is far more than across much of the country, and a share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, while July is the warmest and comfortably warm; rain and melted snow fall at a fairly ordinary rate through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in the building trades, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Barry County, some of the largest workplaces are Bradford White, which makes household hot water heaters, the Thornapple Kellogg School District, and Corewell Health Pennock Hospital. The commute is a fairly long one, and only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. Close to home, the Coldwater River and the Little Thornapple River are both a short drive away for time by the water. A longer drive brings you to the North Country Trail, a long-distance walking trail, and to Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, a botanical garden with outdoor art. The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum is also a longer drive away.
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- 14%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Barry County had 13,286 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 59°. About 68 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hastings weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Barry County
- Bradford WhiteHot water heaters, household-type, manufacturing1,614
- Thornapple Kellogg School DistrictSchool district405FTE
- Flexfab LLC - MainHoses, reinforced, rubber or plastics, manufacturing338
- Corewell Health Pennock HospitalCritical access hospital308FTE
- Hastings Area School DistrictSchool district306FTE
- Thornapple ManorSkilled nursing facilities270
- Viking Corp HastingsSprinkler systems, automatic fire, manufacturing258
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters226
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 36 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,747 people in all across the county; Freeport has none of its own. 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Freeport’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 Barry County and the Grand Rapids-Kentwood, MI metro.
Freeport home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Freeport$325,989
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Freeport address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Freeport — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.