Grosse Pointe, Michigan.
Typical home $481,642 (+4.3% in a year). Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,245 (+97%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,896 +4%
- $461,745$481,642 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $80,032 +20%
- $401,609$481,642 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 Pointe$2,528
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Grosse Pointe, MI rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Grosse Pointe, Wayne County, Michigan
Grosse Pointe is a city of 5,678 people in Wayne County. Half its households earn more than $158,853 a year and half less, against $60,539 across Wayne County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% 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 professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 Pointe is a small city in Wayne County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and household incomes run well above the county's. Poverty is rarer here than in the county as a whole, and most adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January highs hovering around freezing and a fair amount of snow, while July brings warm days; rain and melted snow come steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, manufacturing, and banking, insurance and property also common. In town, Corewell Health - Grosse Pointe, a general hospital, is the largest workplace, followed by Eastlake Cardiovascular PC Grosse Pointe and Kroger Michigan KMA. Across Wayne County, unemployment is higher than it was a year ago and jobs have slipped slightly, and a good number of residents work from home.
Things to do. Lake Saint Clair is the best known place nearby, a lake a longer drive away. Closer in, the Detroit Institute of Arts is a museum a short drive away, and Belle Isle Park, listed as a botanical garden, is also a short drive away. Fort Detroit makes another short trip for those who like history.
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- 2,211households
- 73%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 26%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 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 28 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Grosse Pointe Farms weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grosse Pointe
- Corewell Health - Grosse PointeGeneral hospital1,206FTE
- Kroger Michigan KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores100
- Trader Joe's 0665 Grosse PointeGrocery store86
- Sodexo at Grosse Point Public SchoolsFood service contractors58
- Holcomb ContractingConstruction management, multifamily building30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,037 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Grosse Pointe’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 Wayne County and the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
Grosse Pointe home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Grosse Pointe$481,642
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Grosse Pointe 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.
- Grosse Pointe23.69%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Grosse Pointe33
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Grosse Pointe13
Zip codes with a Grosse Pointe address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Grosse Pointe — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.