Lachine, Michigan.
Typical home $217,232 (+8.2% in a year). Alpena, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$677 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,428 +8%
- $200,804$217,232 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $59,425 +38%
- $157,807$217,232 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.
- Lachine$1,140
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Lachine, MI rose 8.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lachine, Alpena County, Michigan
The Census does not count Lachine on its own, so the figures here are Alpena County's. Half the county's households earn more than $53,950 a year and half less; 18% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 80% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Alpena County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Alpena County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lachine is a small town in Alpena County, Michigan. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values sit at a modest level. Winters are long, cold and snowy, while summers are warm enough for outdoor life.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing, with shops and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing people across the county. Unemployment is about the same as a year ago, and jobs have dipped slightly. Commutes are short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Fletcher Pond, a reservoir a short drive away, is the closest option for a day outdoors. Hubbard Lake, a lake a longer drive away, and the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, a protected area also a longer drive off, offer more to explore.
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- 13,019households
- 47.8median age
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Alpena County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Alpena County had 12,115 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 56°. About 78 inches of snow and 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Alpena County Regional Airport weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Alpena County
- Mymichigan Medical Center AlpenaGeneral hospital662FTE
- Alpena Public SchoolsSchool district517FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters349
- MeijerRetail221
- Alpena Community CollegeUniversity or college193
- MediLodge of AlpenaNursing homes140
- Alpena-Montmorency-Alcona ESDSchool district115FTE
- City of AlpenaLocal government80
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 35 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,895 people in all. 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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Alpena County, 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 Alpena County and the Alpena, MI metro.
Lachine home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lachine$217,232
- 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.
- Lachine13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Lachine address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lachine — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.