Holton, Michigan.
Typical home $260,369 (+6.3% in a year). Muskegon, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$804 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,500 +6%
- $244,869$260,369 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $54,838 +27%
- $205,531$260,369 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.
- Holton$1,367
- 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 Holton, MI rose 6.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Holton, Muskegon County, Michigan
Holton is a township of 2,586 people in Muskegon County. Half its households earn more than $72,910 a year and half less, against $65,024 across Muskegon County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Muskegon County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Holton is a rural township in Muskegon County, home to a small community where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Households here have higher incomes than across the county, and residents are somewhat older than in many places. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might expect, and most people commute some distance to work.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Some of the largest workplaces across Muskegon County are Trinity Health Muskegon, Howmet Aerospace Whitehall Operations and Muskegon Public Schools. The job market across the county has been a little softer than a year ago, and unemployment there is slightly lower than it was then.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Muskegon Lake and the Muskegon River are both a longer drive away. Michigan's Adventure, an amusement park, is also a longer drive from town, as is the USS LST-393, a museum ship. Winters are cold and snowy, with a good deal of rain and melted snow over the year, and summers are warm.
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- 924households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Muskegon County had 62,026 jobs in 2025, 2.3% 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 80° and lows near 58°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fremont Wsw weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Muskegon County
- Trinity Health MuskegonGeneral hospital2,938FTE
- Howmet Aerospace Whitehall OperationsNonferrous metals foundries1,283
- Howmet Aerospace Whitehall OperationsFoundries, nonferrous metals884
- Johnson Technology875
- Newkirk Electric AssociatesElectrical contractors645
- Muskegon Public Schools of the City ofSchool district483FTE
- Mona Shores Public School DistrictSchool district482FTE
- Johnson Technology, Inc. - NortonAircraft engine and engine parts manufacturing471
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 193 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 25,029 people in all across the county; Holton has one 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 moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Muskegon 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 Muskegon County and the Muskegon, MI metro.
Holton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Holton$260,369
- 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.
- Holton6
Zip codes with a Holton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Holton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.