Grawn, Michigan.
Typical home $339,255 (+3.8% in a year). Traverse City, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,068 (+150%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,466 +4%
- $326,789$339,255 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $84,336 +33%
- $254,919$339,255 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.
- Grawn$1,781
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Grawn, MI rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Grawn, Grand Traverse County, Michigan
Grawn, in Grand Traverse County, had 816 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $57,908 a year and half less, against $81,647 across Grand Traverse County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Grand Traverse County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Grand Traverse County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Grawn is a very small community, home to far fewer people than most towns. Incomes here run well below the county's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than is typical. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few work from home. Winters are cold and heavy with snow, and summers are warm, with a good amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Grand Traverse County, some of the largest workplaces are Munson Medical Center, Traverse City Area Public Schools and Turtle Creek Casino and Hotel. The county's unemployment rate has barely moved over the past year, and the number of jobs there has edged up slightly.
Things to do. Silver Lake and Bass Lake are both in or beside town, and Pit Spitters Park, a stadium, is there too. A short drive away are Long Lake and Interlochen State Park, a protected area. Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, a protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 2%work from home
What people in Grand Traverse County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grand Traverse County had 52,238 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 58°. About 101 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Traverse City Munson weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grand Traverse County
- Munson Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,829FTE
- Traverse City Area Public SchoolsSchool district1,074FTE
- Turtle Creek Casino and HotelCasino hotels665
- Northwest Education Services SchoolsSchool district642FTE
- Northwestern Michigan CollegeUniversity or college590
- KSLB HoldingsDesserts, frozen bakery, manufacturing475
- MeijerRetail377
- Grand Traverse IndustriesVocational rehabilitation or habilitation services372
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 126 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 16,805 people in all across the county; Grawn has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Grawn’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 Grand Traverse County and the Traverse City, MI metro.
Grawn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Grawn$339,255
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Grawn 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.
- Grawn37.49%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Grawn23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Grawn8
Zip codes with a Grawn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Grawn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.