Jenison, Michigan.
Typical home $366,713 (+3.3% in a year), asking rent $1,948 . Grand Rapids-Kentwood, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,100 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,820 +3%
- $354,893$366,713 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $84,857 +30%
- $281,856$366,713 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.
- Jenison$1,925
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Jenison, MI rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Jenison, Ottawa County, Michigan
Jenison, in Ottawa County, had 16,640 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $89,593 a year and half less, against $90,502 across Ottawa County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Ottawa County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Jenison is a community in Ottawa County, west of Grand Rapids, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes sit close to the county's, and few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with heavy snow, and summers are warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, and in professional and business services. Some of the largest workplaces in Jenison are Jenison Public Schools, Meijer and Advanced Interiors. Commutes are fairly short, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, Grand Rapids has the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum, the Grand Rapids Art Museum and John Ball Zoo. For a day outdoors, the Macatawa River is close by, and Lake Macatawa is a longer drive. Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, a botanical garden, is also a longer drive.
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- 6,547households
- 35%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ottawa County had 129,408 jobs in 2025, 1.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 75 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the East Grand Rapids weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jenison
- Jenison Public SchoolsSchool district776FTE
- 4M Building SolutionsJanitorial services443
- MeijerRetail417
- Republic ServicesGarbage hauling, local134
- Advanced InteriorsCountertops, stone, manufacturing112
- American House - JenisonAssisted living facility106
- JDE ConcreteFoundation, building, poured concrete, contractors70
- Michigan Landscape ServicesLandscape care and maintenance services65
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,760 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
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Jenison’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Ottawa County and the Grand Rapids-Kentwood, MI metro.
Jenison home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Jenison$366,713
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Jenison listings, and the typical home goes pending in 8 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Jenison24.02%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Jenison8
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Jenison60
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Jenison34
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Jenison$380,807
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Jenison101.87%
Zip codes with a Jenison address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jenison — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.