Grass Lake, Michigan.
Typical home $344,648 (+3.9% in a year). Jackson, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$976 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,067 +4%
- $331,581$344,648 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,458 +25%
- $275,191$344,648 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.
- Grass Lake$1,809
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Grass Lake, MI rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Grass Lake, Jackson County, Michigan
Grass Lake is a village of 1,105 people in Jackson County. Half its households earn more than $80,938 a year and half less, against $66,073 across Jackson County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Jackson County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jackson County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Grass Lake is a small village in Jackson County, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run higher than across the county, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect in a place this size. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm and July is the warmest, and the year brings a fair amount of rain as well as snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Jackson County, some of the largest workplaces are W.A. Foote Memorial Hospital, Eaton and TAC Manufacturing. A good number of residents work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Coe House, a museum, is in or beside town, and Gilletts Lake and Waterloo State Recreation Area, a protected area, are a short drive away. For a longer outing, Hidden Lake Gardens, a botanical garden, and Michigan Stadium both take a longer drive.
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- 532households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What people in Jackson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jackson County had 55,466 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 61°. About 33 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chelsea weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jackson County
- W.a. Foote Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital3,087FTE
- EatonMfgr of aero fluid distribution comp866
- TAC ManufacturingOil filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing822
- One Energy PlazaCorporate offices818
- Michigan Automotive CompressorCompressors, motor vehicle air-conditioning, manufacturing670
- Jackson ISDSchool district654FTE
- Jackson Public SchoolsSchool district628FTE
- Consumers EnergyCorporate offices592
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 155 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 21,479 people in all across the county; Grass Lake has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Grass Lake’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 Jackson County and the Jackson, MI metro.
Grass Lake home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Grass Lake$344,648
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Grass Lake 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.
- Grass Lake26.49%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Grass Lake35
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Grass Lake11
Zip codes with a Grass Lake address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Grass Lake — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.