Hartland, Michigan.
Typical home $405,519 (+2.8% in a year). Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,159 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,898 +3%
- $394,621$405,519 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $86,859 +27%
- $318,659$405,519 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.
- Hartland$2,128
- 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 Hartland, MI rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hartland, Livingston County, Michigan
Hartland, in Livingston County, had 777 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $112,257 a year and half less, against $103,039 across Livingston County; 0% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Livingston County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Livingston County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hartland is a very small community in Livingston County, with a population that would fit comfortably in a single school gymnasium. Household incomes here run above the county's, and homes are valued well above what many other places in the region ask. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and the lows well below freezing, while July brings warm summer days; the year's precipitation arrives as a mix of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops. Across Livingston County, the largest workplaces include Trinity Health Livingston, Hartland Consolidated Schools and Howell Public Schools. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and only a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. Outdoor space is the main draw nearby. Kensington Metropark is a large park, and Island Lake Recreation Area is a protected area for walking and time by the water, both a longer drive away. For a day out of a different kind, the University of Michigan Museum of Art is a museum, also a longer drive away.
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- 0%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Livingston County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Livingston County had 64,689 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Milford Gm Proving Ground weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Livingston County
- Thai Summit America (2)Job stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing829
- Trinity Health LivingstonGeneral hospital718FTE
- Howell Public SchoolsSchool district712FTE
- Hartland Consolidated SchoolsSchool district693FTE
- Livingston CountyCity and town councils689
- Brighton Area SchoolsSchool district641FTE
- Livingston ESA SchoolsSchool district601FTE
- PuremOil filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing524
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 176 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 17,867 people in all across the county; Hartland has none of its own. 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hartland’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 Livingston County and the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
Hartland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hartland$405,519
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hartland17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hartland7
Zip codes with a Hartland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hartland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.