Hope, Michigan.
Typical home $218,308 (+8.6% in a year). Midland, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$572 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,224 +9%
- $201,084$218,308 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,218 +19%
- $183,090$218,308 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.
- Hope$1,146
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Hope, MI rose 8.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hope, Midland County, Michigan
Hope is a township of 1,373 people in Midland County. Half its households earn more than $101,205 a year and half less, against $77,705 across Midland County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. Unemployment in Midland County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hope is a township in Midland County, Michigan, and it is a place where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm days, and precipitation is spread through the year as both rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops also employing many. Across Midland County, some of the largest workplaces are Dow, Midland Public Schools and Northwood University. Commutes are fairly long, and a good number of residents work from home.
Things to do. Wixom Lake and Sanford Lake are both reservoirs and lakes a short drive away, good for time on the water. Farther afield, Dow Gardens is a botanical garden, and the USS Edson is a museum ship, both a longer drive away.
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- 635households
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Midland County had 38,301 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Midland weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Midland County
- DowSilicone manufacturing2,197
- Midland Public SchoolsSchool district913FTE
- Midland Corteva AgrisciencesPesticides manufacturing529
- Northwood UniversityUniversity or college498
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters344
- Fisher Contracting CoUtility line, construction329
- Three RiversCommercial building construction general contractors315
- MeijerRetail306
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 73 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,527 people in all across the county; Hope has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Midland 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 Midland County and the Midland, MI metro.
Hope home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hope$218,308
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Hope14
Zip codes with a Hope address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hope — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.