Grosse Ile, Michigan.
Typical home $396,526 (+4.0% in a year). Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,121 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,157 +4%
- $381,370$396,526 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $84,830 +27%
- $311,696$396,526 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.
- Grosse Ile$2,081
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Grosse Ile, MI rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Grosse Ile, Wayne County, Michigan
Grosse Ile is a township of 10,788 people in Wayne County. Half its households earn more than $126,582 a year and half less, against $60,539 across Wayne County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Wayne County was 6.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Grosse Ile is a township in Wayne County, and its people are older than in most communities. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and household incomes run well above the county's, with far fewer people living below the poverty line. A great many adults hold a four-year degree or more, and winters are cold and snowy, with January highs just around freezing and warm summers.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and professional and business services also common. Within the township, the largest workplaces are Grosse Ile Township Schools and Kroger. Commutes are fairly long, and a good number of people work from home. Across Wayne County, unemployment has risen over the past year and the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. The Detroit River and the Huron River are both a short drive away, for time by the water. A longer drive brings you to the Detroit Institute of Arts, a museum, and The Henry Ford, another museum. Comerica Park, a stadium, is also a longer drive away.
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- 4,140households
- 50%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wayne County had 721,389 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 45 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Detroit Metro Airport weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grosse Ile
- Grosse Ile Township SchoolsSchool district176FTE
- Kroger Michigan KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores77
- Grosse ILEMail and parcel delivery20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 97 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- LightningVery high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Wayne County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Wayne County and the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
Grosse Ile home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Grosse Ile$396,526
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Grosse Ile listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Grosse Ile28.37%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Grosse Ile48
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Grosse Ile19
Zip codes with a Grosse Ile address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Grosse Ile — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.