L'' Anse, Michigan.
Typical home $176,954 (+16.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$502 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $24,870 +16%
- $152,084$176,954 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $31,271 +21%
- $145,683$176,954 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.
- L'' Anse$929
- 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 L'' Anse, MI rose 16.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in L'' Anse, Baraga County, Michigan
L'' Anse is a village of 1,874 people in Baraga County. Half its households earn more than $52,317 a year and half less, against $55,327 across Baraga County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Baraga County was 6.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. L'Anse is a village in Baraga County, on the Upper Peninsula. It is a small place, and its residents are older than in most American communities. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values and household incomes sit modestly, with incomes a little below the county's. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month and a great deal of snow, while summers are mild and pleasant at their warmest in July.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, government and shops also employing many. Across Baraga County, the largest workplaces include Baraga County Memorial Hospital, L'Anse Area Schools and Baraga Correctional Facility. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Baraga State Park, a protected area, lies in or beside town, as do the Falls River and the Sand Point Site, an archaeological site. The Silver River is a short drive away, and Lake Michigamme is a longer drive for a day out on the water.
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- 866households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Baraga County had 2,965 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 19° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 75° and lows near 54°. About 208 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Herman weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Baraga County
- Baraga Correctional FacilityCorrectional institutions204
- Certainteed ceilingsPapier-mache statuary and related art goods manufacturing160
- Applied Solutions Group ASG Pettibone Main100
- Baraga County Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital78FTE
- L'Anse Area SchoolsSchool district75FTE
- Baraga Area SchoolsSchool district63FTE
- Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community CollegeTwo-year college55
- Laser NorthCoal chutes, sheet metal, manufacturing53
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 669 people in all across the county; L'' Anse has two 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in L'' Anse’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 Baraga County.
L'' Anse home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- L'' Anse$176,954
- 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.
- L'' Anse12
Zip codes with a L'' Anse address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls L'' Anse — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.