Gladstone, Michigan.
Typical home $215,186 (+8.2% in a year). Escanaba, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$663 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,339 +8%
- $198,847$215,186 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $65,487 +44%
- $149,699$215,186 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.
- Gladstone$1,129
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Gladstone, MI rose 8.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gladstone, Delta County, Michigan
Gladstone is a city of 5,257 people in Delta County. Half its households earn more than $54,970 a year and half less, against $57,809 across Delta County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Delta County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gladstone is a small city where most homes are lived in by their owners, a far higher share than in many American towns. Incomes run a little below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than most would expect to find in a place with so many homeowners. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow, while July is pleasantly warm and the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and shops also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Gladstone are Gladstone Area Schools, the road construction firm Payne & Dolan, and the State Police Post. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Rivers are the nearest outdoor draw. The Tacoosh River and the Days River are both a short drive away. For a longer outing, Fayette Historic State Park and Hiawatha National Forest are each a longer drive away, one a protected historic site and the other a large national forest.
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- 2,135households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Delta County had 13,886 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 25° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 56°. About 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rapid River 4SSE weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gladstone
- Gladstone Area SchoolsSchool district174FTE
- Payne & Dolan, Inc - MI - Const. - TranspRoad construction130
- Delta Force PISecurity guard services79
- State Police Post - GladstoneState police37
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture28
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 246 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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 wavesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Hailrelatively high in parts of GladstoneRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gladstone’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 Delta County and the Escanaba, MI metro.
Gladstone home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gladstone$215,186
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Gladstone 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.
- Gladstone13.97%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Gladstone38
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Gladstone10
Zip codes with a Gladstone address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gladstone — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.