Greenbush, Michigan.
Typical home $255,010 (+8.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$682 (+104%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,605 +9%
- $234,405$255,010 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,571 +31%
- $194,439$255,010 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.
- Greenbush$1,338
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Greenbush, MI rose 8.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Greenbush, Alcona County, Michigan
Greenbush is a township of 1,270 people in Alcona County. Half its households earn more than $62,813 a year and half less, against $54,993 across Alcona County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Alcona County was 7.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Alcona 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Greenbush is a small township in Alcona County, on Michigan's northeastern side. Residents are older than in most places, and nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes run above the county's, and a good share of adults have a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers stay mild and August is the warmest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, transport and warehouses, and shops. Across Alcona County, some of the largest workplaces are Alcona Community Schools, Alcona Citizens for Health and Atrium Centers. Commutes are fairly short, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Harrisville State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and Van Etten Lake is another short drive. Wurtsmith Air Museum, also a short drive off, is a museum for those who like aviation history. With a longer drive, Hubbard Lake offers more water to spend a day beside.
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- 652households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What people in Alcona County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Alcona County had 1,533 jobs in 2025, 2.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 14°; warmest in August, with highs near 74° and lows near 58°. About 52 inches of snow and 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Harrisville 2NNE weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Alcona County
- Harvard Maintenance Inc of MichiganBuilding cleaning services, janitorial144
- Alcona CountyCounty commissioners114
- Alcona Community SchoolsSchool district98FTE
- Alcona Citizens for HealthFamily physicians' offices76
- Atrium CentersHomes for the elderly with nursing care36
- Eagle Ridge RanchGolf and country clubs31
- Alcona County Road CommissionSurfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway29
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 430 people in all across the county; Greenbush has none of its own. 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
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Alcona County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Alcona County.
Greenbush home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Greenbush$255,010
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Greenbush 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.
- Greenbush26.88%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Greenbush23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Greenbush6
Zip codes with a Greenbush address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Greenbush — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.