Gibraltar, Michigan.
Typical home $226,890 (+0.8% in a year). Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$606 (+104%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,895 +1%
- $224,995$226,890 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,493 +13%
- $200,397$226,890 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.
- Gibraltar$1,191
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 28 years.
Typical home values in Gibraltar, MI rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gibraltar, Wayne County, Michigan
Gibraltar is a city of 4,997 people in Wayne County. Half its households earn more than $91,651 a year and half less, against $60,539 across Wayne County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Wayne County was 6.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gibraltar is a small city on the Detroit River's western shore, where most homes are lived in by their owners and few residents live below the poverty line. Household incomes are well above the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest and a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, schools, hospitals and social care, shops, and the building trades. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might expect given the incomes, and the typical commute is a fairly ordinary one for the area, with some people working from home. Unemployment across Wayne County is higher than it was a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than the year before; among its largest workplaces are Henry Ford Hospital, Wayne State University, and Delta Air Lines at the Detroit airport.
Things to do. The Detroit River is a short drive away, and so is the Huron River, both good for time along the water. A longer drive takes you into Detroit, to the Detroit Institute of Arts, a museum, and to Comerica Park, a stadium.
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- 2,194households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wayne County had 721,389 jobs in 2025, 0.6% 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 84° and lows near 64°. About 45 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Detroit Metro Airport weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wayne County
- Henry Ford HospitalGeneral hospital11,191FTE
- Detroit CampusGeneral medical and surgical hospitals9,365
- Trinity HealthAdvisory commissions, executive government8,446
- Delta Air Lines - DTWScheduled air transportation7,361
- Detroit Public Schools Community DistrictSchool district6,492FTE
- Wayne State UniversityUniversity or college6,166
- Ford Motor CompanyAutomotive manufacturing5,875
- Ford Motor CompanyEngineering services5,302
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1,418 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 307,748 people in all across the county; Gibraltar has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gibraltar’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 Wayne County and the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
Gibraltar home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gibraltar$226,890
- 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.
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Zip codes with a Gibraltar address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gibraltar — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.