Kingsley, Michigan.
Typical home $349,647 (+4.6% in a year). Traverse City, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,069 (+139%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,527 +5%
- $334,119$349,647 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $68,469 +24%
- $281,177$349,647 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.
- Kingsley$1,835
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Kingsley, MI rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kingsley, Grand Traverse County, Michigan
Kingsley is a village of 1,431 people in Grand Traverse County. Half its households earn more than $67,321 a year and half less, against $81,647 across Grand Traverse County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Grand Traverse County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kingsley is a small village where most homes are lived in by their owners, and where a typical household earns less than the county as a whole. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow, and summers are warm without being hot. Precipitation through the year is moderate, and some of it falls as snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, the building trades and manufacturing also common. Across Grand Traverse County, the largest workplaces include Munson Medical Center, Traverse City Area Public Schools and Turtle Creek Casino and Hotel. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in many places, and the trip to work is a fairly long one for some.
Things to do. Spider Lake and Fife Lake are both lakes a short drive away, and Pit Spitters Park, a stadium, is also close by. For a longer outing, Traverse City State Park is a protected area a longer drive off, and the Boardman River is another longer trip for time along the water.
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- 519households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grand Traverse County had 52,238 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 25° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 55°. About 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fife Lake 2WNW weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grand Traverse County
- Munson Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,829FTE
- Traverse City Area Public SchoolsSchool district1,074FTE
- Turtle Creek Casino and HotelCasino hotels665
- Northwest Education Services SchoolsSchool district642FTE
- Northwestern Michigan CollegeUniversity or college590
- KSLB HoldingsDesserts, frozen bakery, manufacturing475
- MeijerRetail377
- Grand Traverse IndustriesVocational rehabilitation or habilitation services372
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 126 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 16,805 people in all across the county; Kingsley has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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 weatherVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kingsley’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Grand Traverse County and the Traverse City, MI metro.
Kingsley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kingsley$349,647
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Kingsley listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Kingsley30.83%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Kingsley35
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Kingsley11
Zip codes with a Kingsley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kingsley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.