Lakeview, Michigan.
Typical home $228,544 (+5.7% in a year). Grand Rapids-Kentwood, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$642 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,227 +6%
- $216,318$228,544 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $33,523 +17%
- $195,022$228,544 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.
- Lakeview$1,200
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Lakeview, MI rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lakeview, Montcalm County, Michigan
Lakeview is a village of 1,024 people in Montcalm County. Unemployment in Montcalm County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Montcalm County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lakeview is a small village in Montcalm County. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults here than is typical, and the median income across Montcalm County sits at a level many households around the village will recognize. Homes here carry a typical value that is modest by national standards, and the commute to work is longer than most Americans face.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Montcalm County, the largest workplaces include Dicastal North America, an aluminum casting manufacturer, Greenville Public Schools, and Corewell Health Greenville Hospital. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than it was a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. Cowden Lake is the closest of the nearby places, a lake a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to White Pine Trail State Park, a protected area, and to the Pine River. Winters are cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days, and the year is fairly wet overall.
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- 407households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 34 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Montcalm County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Montcalm County had 16,387 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 56°. About 73 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Greenville Nne weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Montcalm County
- Dicastal North AmericaCastings, unfinished, aluminum, manufacturing498
- State of Michigan Department of CorrectionsCorrectional institutions454
- Greenville Public SchoolsSchool district443FTE
- Corewell Health Greenville HospitalGeneral hospital381FTE
- Tenneco, GreenvilleBearings, automotive and truck gasoline engine, manufacturing296
- County of MontcalmExecutive offices, federal, state, and local288
- MeijerRetail285
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters282
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 50 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,376 people in all across the county; Lakeview has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lakeview’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 Montcalm County and the Grand Rapids-Kentwood, MI metro.
Lakeview home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lakeview$228,544
- 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.
- Lakeview14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lakeview6
Zip codes with a Lakeview address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lakeview — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.