Fulton, Michigan.
Typical home $261,063 (+8.2% in a year). Kalamazoo-Portage, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$776 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,815 +8%
- $241,247$261,063 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,414 +31%
- $198,649$261,063 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.
- Fulton$1,370
- 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 Fulton, MI rose 8.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fulton, Kalamazoo County, Michigan
The Census does not count Fulton on its own, so the figures here are Kalamazoo County's. Half the county's households earn more than $72,532 a year and half less; 13% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 64% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Kalamazoo County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Kalamazoo County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fulton is a small town in Kalamazoo County, in southwest Michigan. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and the county's typical home value sits at a level that reflects its mix of housing. Winters are colder than in much of the country, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall in good measure through the year.
Work. Across Kalamazoo County, most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, shops, or professional and business services. Unemployment has eased over the past year, and job numbers have edged up. A typical commute is fairly brief, and relatively few people work from home.
Things to do. Portage River, a river a short drive away, is a popular spot for time outdoors near town. Austin Lake, a lake a longer drive away, and Binder Park Zoo, a zoo also a longer drive away, offer other day trips for residents and visitors alike.
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- 107,110households
- 35.0median age
- 41%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What people in Kalamazoo County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kalamazoo County had 122,119 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Battle Creek Kellogg Airport weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kalamazoo County
- Stryker Employer CompanyHospital beds manufacturing4,988
- Bronson Methodist HospitalGeneral hospital4,069FTE
- Pfizer Kalamazoo - Portage Road (2)Pharmaceutical preparations manufacturing3,035
- Western Michigan UniversityUniversity or college2,794
- Ascension Borgess HospitalGeneral hospital1,647FTE
- Kalamazoo Public SchoolsSchool district1,555FTE
- TargetDiscount department stores1,019
- Kalamazoo Valley Community CollegeTwo-year college1,015
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 326 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 52,486 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Kalamazoo County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Kalamazoo County and the Kalamazoo-Portage, MI metro.
Fulton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fulton$261,063
- 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.
Zip codes with a Fulton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fulton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.