Gobles, Michigan.
Typical home $258,458 (+4.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$694 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,349 +5%
- $247,109$258,458 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,804 +22%
- $211,654$258,458 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.
- Gobles$1,357
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Gobles, MI rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gobles, Van Buren County, Michigan
Gobles is a city of 851 people in Van Buren County. Unemployment in Van Buren County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Van Buren County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gobles is a very small city in Van Buren County, in southwest Michigan. Homes here cost less than the typical home across much of the country, and the town is the kind of place where people tend to know one another. Winters are cold and very snowy, with a good deal of snow piling up each season, and summers are warm.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than is typical, and most people travel some distance to their jobs rather than working from home. The largest workplaces in Gobles are the Gobles Public School District, Michigan Online School and Murk's Village Market.
Things to do. The Kal-Haven Trail and the Paw Paw River are both a short drive away, for walking or cycling along the trail and for time by the water. In winter, Timber Ridge Ski Area is also a short drive away and makes use of the snowy season. For a longer outing, the Gilmore Car Museum is a longer drive away.
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- 335households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 23 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Van Buren County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Van Buren County had 21,582 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 60°. About 109 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bloomingdale weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gobles
- Gobles Public School DistrictSchool district100FTE
- Michigan Online SchoolSchool district86FTE
- Murk's Village Market25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 25 people in all. School districts come 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- 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 in Gobles’ 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 Van Buren County.
Gobles home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gobles$258,458
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 2 Gobles 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Gobles19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Gobles7
Zip codes with a Gobles address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gobles — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.