Hubbell, Michigan.
Typical home $139,699 (+8.6% in a year). Houghton, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$426 (+139%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,067 +9%
- $128,633$139,699 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,292 +36%
- $102,407$139,699 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.
- Hubbell$733
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Hubbell, MI rose 8.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hubbell, Houghton County, Michigan
Hubbell, in Houghton County, had 908 people in the 2020 census. 97% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 3% are rented. Unemployment in Houghton County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Houghton County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hubbell is a small community on the Keweenaw Peninsula in Houghton County, with a population that has stayed modest. Nearly every home is lived in by its owner, and far fewer residents live below the poverty line than is typical elsewhere. Homes cost less than in much of the country, and winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying well below freezing, while July is pleasantly warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, manufacturing, and shops. Across Houghton County, the largest workplaces include Michigan Technological University, Portage Health System and Aspirus Keweenaw Hospital. The county added jobs last year, and unemployment there has eased compared with a year earlier. Commutes are short, and almost no one works from home.
Things to do. Hungarian Falls, a waterfall in or beside town, is the closest outdoor draw, and Torch Lake is also in or beside town. A short drive away, Keweenaw National Historical Park is a protected area that preserves the peninsula's copper-mining history. Mont Ripley, a ski area, is also a short drive away and suits the long winters.
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- 394households
- 4%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Houghton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Houghton County had 12,476 jobs in 2025, 2.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 22° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 75° and lows near 55°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hancock Houghton County Airport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Houghton County
- Michigan Technological UniversityUniversity or college1,618
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters445
- Portage Health SystemGeneral hospital357FTE
- Canal View~Houghton CountySkilled nursing facilities250
- Aspirus Keweenaw HospitalCritical access hospital173FTE
- Public Schools of Calumet Laurium & KeweenawSchool district163FTE
- Copper Country ISDSchool district161FTE
- Houghton-Portage Township School DistrictSchool district131FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 32 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,845 people in all across the county; Hubbell has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hubbell’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 Houghton County and the Houghton, MI metro.
Hubbell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hubbell$139,699
- 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.
- Hubbell7
Zip codes with a Hubbell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hubbell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.