Gladwin, Michigan.
Typical home $195,924 (+10.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$564 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,719 +11%
- $177,205$195,924 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,356 +28%
- $152,568$195,924 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.
- Gladwin$1,028
- 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 Gladwin, MI rose 10.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gladwin, Gladwin County, Michigan
Gladwin is a city of 3,069 people in Gladwin County. 52% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 48% are rented. Unemployment in Gladwin County was 5.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then finance and property.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gladwin is a small city, so it has the feel of a place where neighbors tend to know one another. More homes are lived in by their owners than by renters, and a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than is typical for the country. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month and heavy snowfall through the season, while July brings warm summer days.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with banks, insurance and property, professional and business services, and shops also employing local people. Gladwin Community Schools and Mymichigan Medical Center Gladwin are among the largest workplaces in the city. Jobs across Gladwin County have slipped over the past year, and unemployment there is somewhat lower than it was a year earlier, though the county's job market remains a concern for many families.
Things to do. The area is rich in water. The Cedar River and the Tobacco River are both a short drive away, and Pratt Lake is close by as well. For a longer outing, Au Sable State Forest, a protected area, lies a longer drive away.
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- 1,454households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Gladwin County had 4,495 jobs in 2025, 2.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 57°. About 48 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Gladwin weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gladwin
- Gladwin Community SchoolsSchool district230FTE
- Mymichigan Medical Center GladwinCritical access hospital135FTE
- Gladwin Pines Nursing and Rehabilitation CenterSkilled nursing facilities113
- Gladwin City Housing CommissioRural bus services105
- Loose PlasticsFilm, plastics, packaging, manufacturing102
- Safe FleetConvertible tops for automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing67
- SpartanNashSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores60
- D&W Fine Pack - GladwinPackaging, plastics, manufacturing53
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 679 people in all. 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gladwin’s census tracts, 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 Gladwin County.
Gladwin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gladwin$195,924
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Gladwin listings, and the typical home goes pending in 40 days — 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.
- Gladwin24.64%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Gladwin40
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Gladwin140
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Gladwin39
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Gladwin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gladwin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.