Huron, Michigan.
Typical home $332,692 (+4.8% in a year). Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$916 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,143 +5%
- $317,549$332,692 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,332 +22%
- $272,360$332,692 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.
- Huron$1,746
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Huron, MI rose 4.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Huron, Wayne County, Michigan
Huron is a township of 16,944 people in Wayne County. Half its households earn more than $92,832 a year and half less, against $60,539 across Wayne County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% are rented. Unemployment in Wayne County was 6.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Huron is a township in Wayne County where almost all homes are lived in by their owners, a much higher share than is usual across the county. Household incomes run well above the county's, and the typical home is worth a good deal. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and transport, warehouses and utilities also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Huron are Brose New Boston, which makes seats for public conveyances, the Huron School District, and Champion Foods New Boston, a commercial bakery. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults here than not, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. Willow Metropark is a park in or beside town, handy for a walk or an afternoon outdoors. A longer drive takes you to the Detroit Institute of Arts, a museum, and The Henry Ford, another museum. The Huron River, also a longer drive away, is a good choice for time by the water.
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- 6,217households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wayne County had 721,389 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 45 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Detroit Metro Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Huron
- Brose New BostonSeats for public conveyances, manufacturing735
- Autokiniton US HoldingsCorporate offices367
- Champion Foods New BostonFrozen bread and bread-type rolls, made in commercial bakeries340
- Huron School DistrictSchool district330FTE
- Swift Transportation Co of ArizonaTrucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload292
- Summit Academy NorthSchool district211FTE
- Target Metal BlankingMetals service centers125
- Delaware North CompaniesFood service contractors113
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,278 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- LightningVery high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Wayne County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Wayne County and the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
Huron home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Huron$332,692
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Huron listings — the market is heating up.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Huron29.41%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Huron33
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Huron15
Zip codes with a Huron address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Huron — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.