Fruitport, Michigan.
Typical home $340,288 (+6.2% in a year). Muskegon, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,036 (+138%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,914 +6%
- $320,374$340,288 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $76,010 +29%
- $264,278$340,288 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.
- Fruitport$1,786
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Fruitport, MI rose 6.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fruitport, Muskegon County, Michigan
Fruitport is a village of 1,103 people in Muskegon County. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Muskegon County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fruitport is a village in Muskegon County, home to a small population where most homes are lived in by their owners. Residents tend to be a little older than the typical American, and fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in many places. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers are warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services. Across Muskegon County, Trinity Health Muskegon and Howmet Aerospace Whitehall Operations are among the largest workplaces. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than it was a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before, and most people commute a fair way to work.
Things to do. The Grand River is a short drive away, as is Grand Haven State Park, a protected area on the lake shore. USS LST-393, a museum ship, is also a short drive from the village. Muskegon Lake is a longer drive, and Michigan's Adventure, an amusement park, is a longer drive as well.
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- 20%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Muskegon County had 62,026 jobs in 2025, 2.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 62°. About 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Grand Haven Wwtp weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Muskegon County
- Trinity Health MuskegonGeneral hospital2,938FTE
- Howmet Aerospace Whitehall OperationsNonferrous metals foundries1,283
- Howmet Aerospace Whitehall OperationsFoundries, nonferrous metals884
- Johnson Technology875
- Newkirk Electric AssociatesElectrical contractors645
- Muskegon Public Schools of the City ofSchool district483FTE
- Mona Shores Public School DistrictSchool district482FTE
- Johnson Technology, Inc. - NortonAircraft engine and engine parts manufacturing471
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 193 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 25,029 people in all across the county; Fruitport has one 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 moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Fruitport’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 Muskegon County and the Muskegon, MI metro.
Fruitport home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fruitport$340,288
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 2 Fruitport listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Fruitport40.17%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fruitport25
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Fruitport10
Zip codes with a Fruitport address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fruitport — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.