Homer, Michigan.
Typical home $189,476 (-0.2% in a year). Battle Creek, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$501 (+102%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $418 -0%
- $189,893$189,476 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $17,360 +10%
- $172,115$189,476 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.
- Homer$995
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 36 years.
Typical home values in Homer, MI fell 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Homer, Calhoun County, Michigan
Homer is a village of 1,575 people in Calhoun County. Half its households earn more than $54,737 a year and half less, against $63,177 across Calhoun County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. 57% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 43% are rented. Unemployment in Calhoun County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Homer is a small village in Calhoun County, Michigan, with a younger population than is typical across the country. Incomes run below the county's, and more households live below the poverty line than most would expect. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents of Homer work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. The largest workplaces in the village include the Homer Community School District, DJS Systems, which makes packaging machinery, and Calhoun Foundry, which makes cast iron pipe and fittings. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and very few people work from home. Across Calhoun County, unemployment is a little lower than a year ago, and the county has added a small number of jobs.
Things to do. A short drive away, Lyon Lake offers a place to be out on the water, and the Gardner House is a local museum. Farther afield, Binder Park Zoo is one of the larger attractions in the area, and Michigan International Speedway is a race track for anyone who likes motorsport. These are longer drives, so they suit a day out.
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- 618households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Calhoun County had 54,949 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 43 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Coldwater St. School weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Homer
- Homer Community School DistrictSchool district125FTE
- DJS SystemsCoding, dating, and imprinting packaging machinery manufacturing73
- RenncoPackaging machinery manufacturing64
- Calhoun FoundryCast iron pipe and pipe fittings manufacturing36
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 173 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Homer’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 Calhoun County and the Battle Creek, MI metro.
Homer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Homer$189,476
- 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.
- Homer15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Homer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Homer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.