Kinde, Michigan.
Typical home $161,485 (-3.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$349 (+70%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,546 -3%
- $167,031$161,485 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $1,086 +1%
- $160,399$161,485 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.
- Kinde$848
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Kinde, MI fell 3.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kinde, Huron County, Michigan
Kinde is a village of 421 people in Huron County. Half its households earn more than $49,886 a year and half less, against $58,870 across Huron County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Huron County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Huron County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kinde is a small village in Huron County, in Michigan's Thumb, and most of its households own the place they live in. Incomes run below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July is pleasantly warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and farming, forestry and mining also employing many. Across Huron County, some of the largest workplaces are Rathmourne Dairy, Autokiniton Elkton and Michigan Sugar Company. Very few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a modest one.
Things to do. Port Crescent State Park, a protected area on the lakeshore, is a short drive away, as are the Pinnebog River and the New River for time by the water. A longer drive brings you to Albert E. Sleeper State Park, another protected area, and to Sanilac Petroglyphs Historic State Park, an archaeological site with ancient rock carvings.
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- 173households
- 2%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Huron County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Huron County had 11,350 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 57°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Filion 5NNW weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Huron County
- Rathmourne DairyDairy cattle farming403
- Autokiniton ElktonMotor vehicle metal stampings manufacturing397
- Michigan Sugar CompanyGranulated beet sugar manufacturing292
- Scheurer HospitalCritical access hospital286FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters260
- Valley EnterprisesMotor vehicle interior systems manufacturing259
- Huron CastingFoundries, steel242
- Blue Diamond Steel CastingFoundries, iron228
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 35 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,774 people in all across the county; Kinde has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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 wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kinde’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 Huron County.
Kinde home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kinde$161,485
- 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.
Zip codes with a Kinde address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kinde — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.