Grant, Michigan.
Typical home $267,087 (+7.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$796 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,295 +8%
- $247,793$267,087 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,449 +24%
- $215,639$267,087 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.
- Grant$1,402
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Grant, MI rose 7.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Grant, Newaygo County, Michigan
Grant is a city of 952 people in Newaygo County. Half its households earn more than $58,083 a year and half less, against $63,304 across Newaygo County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Newaygo County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Grant is a very small city in Newaygo County, Michigan, where people know one another and daily life moves at a quiet pace. Household incomes run below the county's, and a somewhat larger share of residents live below the poverty line than is typical for the nation. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and homes here are valued well above what the local incomes might suggest. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month and highs hovering around freezing. Summers are warm, with July the warmest, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing and the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in Grant are the Grant Public School District, Trees, a tree trimming service, and Gene's Family Market. Unemployment across Newaygo County is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than the year before. A typical commute is a long one, and a modest share of people work from home.
Things to do. Hess Lake is a short drive away and is the closest place for time on the water. A longer drive brings you to the Grand River, and farther still to the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, a botanical garden. The Muskegon River is another longer drive for those who like to spend time by a river.
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- 431households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Newaygo County had 11,796 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 57°. About 48 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kent City Southwest weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grant
- Grant Public School DistrictSchool district187FTE
- TreesTree trimming services94
- Gene's Family MarketProduce markets35
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 129 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windVery high
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Grant’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 Newaygo County.
Grant home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Grant$267,087
- 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.
- Grant15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Grant7
Zip codes with a Grant address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Grant — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.