Hale, Michigan.
Typical home $184,111 (+7.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$607 (+169%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,415 +7%
- $171,696$184,111 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,060 +36%
- $135,051$184,111 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.
- Hale$966
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Hale, MI rose 7.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hale, Iosco County, Michigan
The Census does not count Hale on its own, so the figures here are Iosco County's. Half the county's households earn more than $50,066 a year and half less; 18% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 82% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Iosco County was 6.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Iosco County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hale sits in Iosco County in northeastern Michigan, where the population is older than most of the country. Most homes across Iosco County are lived in by their owners, and home prices are modest compared with much of the nation. Winters here are colder than in most of the country, and summers are comfortably warm, with the county's household incomes running lower than the national picture.
Work. Across Iosco County, most working residents are employed in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Unemployment has held at the same level as a year earlier, although the county had somewhat fewer jobs in its most recent full year than before. Fewer adults hold a college degree than in most of the country, and commutes tend to be short, with few people working from home.
Things to do. Huron National Forest is one of the best known protected areas nearby, though it is a longer drive away. Rifle River State Recreation Area is a protected area close by, a short drive from town. Tawas Lake, a lake a longer drive away, is another local option for those who enjoy the water.
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- 11,713households
- 53.5median age
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Iosco County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Iosco County had 7,624 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 54°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hale 5SSW #2 weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Iosco County
- 10 Kalitta AIRAircraft maintenance1,366
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters316
- Plastic Trim InternationalMotor vehicle metal parts stamping304
- Cooper Standard-Oscoda PlantFuel injection systems and parts, automotive and truck gasoline engine, manufacturing228
- Ascension St. Joseph HospitalGeneral hospital187FTE
- Oscoda Area SchoolsSchool district165FTE
- Tawas Area SchoolsSchool district137FTE
- Iosco Medical Care FacilityNursing homes120
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 29 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,425 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Iosco 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 Iosco County.
Hale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hale$184,111
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Hale 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.
- Hale23.21%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hale66
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hale13
Zip codes with a Hale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.