Hamtramck, Michigan.
Typical home $168,949 (+1.0% in a year), asking rent $1,151 . Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$508 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,667 +1%
- $167,282$168,949 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $33,194 +24%
- $135,756$168,949 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.
- Hamtramck$887
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Hamtramck, MI rose 1.0% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Hamtramck, Wayne County, Michigan
Hamtramck is a city of 28,433 people in Wayne County. Half its households earn more than $39,293 a year and half less, against $60,539 across Wayne County; 40% of its people live below the poverty line. 58% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 42% are rented. Unemployment in Hamtramck was 9.4% in August 2026, and Wayne County had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hamtramck is a small city of its own, set within Wayne County and surrounded by Detroit. It is a young place, with a much lower typical age than most of the country, and incomes sit well below the county's, with far more households living below the poverty line than is usual. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places. Winters are cold, with January highs around freezing, summers are warm, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, shops, schools, hospitals and social care, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Among the largest workplaces in Hamtramck are the Hamtramck School District, Metropolitan Baking Company and Kowalski Companies, the last of which makes cooked meats. Unemployment is higher than it was a year ago, and across Wayne County there are slightly fewer jobs than there were the year before.
Things to do. The Detroit Institute of Arts, a museum, is in or beside town. A short drive away are Belle Isle Park, a botanical garden, and Ford Field, a stadium. For water, the Detroit River and Lake Saint Clair are a longer drive away.
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- 7,120households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 40%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 9%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 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 65°. About 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Detroit City Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hamtramck
- Hamtramck School District of the City ofSchool district405FTE
- Bridge AcademySchool district109FTE
- Metropolitan Baking CompanyBakery products, fresh, made in commercial bakeries94
- Caniff Electric Supply - HamtramckElectric motors, wiring supplies, and lighting fixtures merchant wholesalers79
- Kowalski CompaniesCooked meats made from purchased carcasses79
- Hanley International AcademySchool district72FTE
- SHONDHAN Enterprise,INCAir courier services72
- Hamtramck AcademySchool district47FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 439 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 wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hamtramck’s census tracts, 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 Wayne County and the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
Hamtramck home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hamtramck$168,949
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Hamtramck listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Hamtramck27.26%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hamtramck38
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hamtramck13
Zip codes with a Hamtramck address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hamtramck — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.