Henderson, Michigan.
Typical home $177,883 (+5.3% in a year). Lansing-East Lansing, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$450 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,968 +5%
- $168,916$177,883 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $21,431 +14%
- $156,452$177,883 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.
- Henderson$934
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Henderson, MI rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Henderson, Shiawassee County, Michigan
Henderson, in Shiawassee County, had 413 people in the 2020 census. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Shiawassee County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Shiawassee 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Henderson is a very small community in Shiawassee County, with an older population than most of the country and homes that are lived in by their owners far more often than not. Typical home values are modest, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm in July and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops and in the building trades. Commutes tend to be long, and few people work from home. Across Shiawassee County, some of the largest workplaces are Memorial Healthcare, Baker College and Owosso Public Schools, though the county has lost a small share of its jobs over the past year.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Sleepy Hollow State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and the Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge is another protected area, also a longer drive away. The Shiawassee River, one of the rivers in the area, is likewise a longer drive away. Those who like museums can make the longer trip to the Flint Institute of Arts.
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- 17%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Shiawassee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Shiawassee County had 15,490 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 38 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Owosso Wwtp weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Shiawassee County
- Memorial HealthcareGeneral hospital1,113FTE
- Baker CollegeUniversity or college926
- Owosso Public SchoolsSchool district368FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters328
- Pleasant View Shiawassee County Medical Care FacilitySkilled nursing facilities274
- Shiawassee Regional ESDSchool district264FTE
- Corunna Public SchoolsSchool district232FTE
- MeijerRetail217
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 42 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,860 people in all across the county; Henderson has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Henderson’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 Shiawassee County and the Lansing-East Lansing, MI metro.
Henderson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Henderson$177,883
- 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.
Zip codes with a Henderson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Henderson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.