Jones, Michigan.
Typical home $269,946 (+8.3% in a year). South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$777 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,625 +8%
- $249,321$269,946 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,503 +21%
- $222,443$269,946 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.
- Jones$1,417
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Jones, MI rose 8.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Jones, Cass County, Michigan
The Census does not count Jones on its own, so the figures here are Cass County's. Half the county's households earn more than $70,443 a year and half less; 12% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 82% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Cass County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cass County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Jones is a small community in Cass County, in the southwestern corner of Michigan near the Indiana border. The county's homes are mostly lived in by their owners, and the typical home value is in the range of a modest family home in the Midwest. Winters here are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall through the whole year.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in the building trades. Across Cass County, unemployment is a little lower than it was a year earlier, and the county had more jobs in the most recent year than the year before. Incomes are fairly steady, and most adults work outside the home rather than from it.
Things to do. For a day out, Corey Lake and Fawn River are both a short drive away and suit a quiet afternoon by the water. For a longer trip, Notre Dame Stadium is a stadium a longer drive away, and Fort St. Joseph, a fort, is also a longer drive.
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- 21,207households
- 45.5median age
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Cass County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cass County had 9,582 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 41 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Three Rivers weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cass County
- LaddGroup homes for the disabled without nursing care524
- Southwestern Michigan CollegeTwo-year college285
- Creative Foam - DowagiacFoam plastics products manufacturing283
- Edwardsburg Public SchoolsSchool district271FTE
- Dowagiac Union School DistrictSchool district262FTE
- Heritage Southwest Intermediate School DistrictSchool district185FTE
- Midwest Energy CooperativeCable laying, including underground178
- LakotaPlastics manufacturer172
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 38 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,076 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Cass 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 Cass County and the South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI metro.
Jones home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Jones$269,946
- 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.
- Jones13
Zip codes with a Jones address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jones — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.