Green, Michigan.
Typical home $231,118 (+10.3% in a year). Big Rapids, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$690 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,510 +10%
- $209,608$231,118 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,652 +27%
- $182,466$231,118 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.
- Green$1,213
- 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 Green, MI rose 10.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Green, Mecosta County, Michigan
Green is a township of 3,219 people in Mecosta County. Half its households earn more than $82,955 a year and half less, against $60,951 across Mecosta County. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Mecosta County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 3.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Green is a rural township in Mecosta County, Michigan, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run well above the county's, and the population skews a little younger than many small Michigan communities. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow over the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and shops also employing many. Across Mecosta County, some of the largest workplaces are Ferris State University, Corewell Health Big Rapids and Original Footwear Manufacturing. Jobs across the county have slipped from the year before, and unemployment there is lower than a year ago. Most people commute to work, and only a small number work from home.
Things to do. White Pine Trail State Park, a protected area, and Townline Lake are both a short drive away, as is the Hersey River for time on the water. The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia is also a short drive away. For more room to roam, Manistee National Forest is a longer drive.
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- 1,302households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 23 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mecosta County had 12,262 jobs in 2025, 3.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 57°. About 61 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Big Rapids Wtp weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mecosta County
- Ferris State UniversityUniversity or college1,491
- Corewell Health Big RapidsGeneral hospital326FTE
- Original Footwear ManufacturingFootwear, women's leather or vinyl upper with rubber or plastics soles, manufacturing320
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters319
- Big Rapids ProductsJob stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing313
- MeijerRetail294
- Primo Brands - Mecosta FactorySpring waters, purifying and bottling288
- Big Rapids Public SchoolsSchool district275FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,295 people in all across the county; Green has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Mecosta County, 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 Mecosta County and the Big Rapids, MI metro.
Green home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Green$231,118
- 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.
- Green13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Green address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Green — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.