Gunplain, Michigan.
Typical home $323,304 (+3.1% in a year). Holland, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$952 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,605 +3%
- $313,699$323,304 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,411 +26%
- $255,893$323,304 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.
- Gunplain$1,697
- 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 Gunplain, MI rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gunplain, Allegan County, Michigan
Gunplain is a township of 6,148 people in Allegan County. Half its households earn more than $89,346 a year and half less, against $83,283 across Allegan County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Allegan County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 5.6% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gunplain is a township in Allegan County, Michigan, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, a good deal more than across the county as a whole. Household incomes run above the county's, and the population is somewhat older than in many places. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and precipitation is spread fairly evenly through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and professional and business services also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Gunplain are JBS Plainwell, Meijer and USA Earthworks. Commutes are on the longer side, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Gilmore Car Museum, Gull Lake and the Gun River are all a short drive away, offering a museum, a lake and a river to spend a day beside. A longer drive brings you to Fort Custer Recreation Area, a protected area for walking and time outdoors.
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- 2,376households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Allegan County had 43,686 jobs in 2025, 5.6% more 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 85° and lows near 62°. About 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Gull Lake Biological Station weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gunplain
- JBS PlainwellAnimal fats produced in slaughtering plants1,385
- MeijerRetail234
- Harding & Hill49
- USA EarthworksExcavation contractors45
- Hutcherson ConstructionAluminum siding installation40
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,753 people in all. 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 windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Allegan 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 Allegan County and the Holland, MI metro.
Gunplain home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gunplain$323,304
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Gunplain 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Gunplain20
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Gunplain9
Zip codes with a Gunplain address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gunplain — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.