Lawrence, Michigan.
Typical home $244,984 (+3.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$627 (+95%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,914 +3%
- $237,069$244,984 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $29,759 +14%
- $215,225$244,984 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.
- Lawrence$1,286
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Lawrence, MI rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lawrence, Van Buren County, Michigan
Lawrence is a village of 964 people in Van Buren County. Unemployment in Van Buren County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Van Buren 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lawrence is a village in Van Buren County, in southwest Michigan, and a very small one, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here are priced in a range that sits within reach of many buyers, and few adults hold a four-year degree compared with much of the country. Winters are cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. The commute is a fairly long one, and very few people work from home. Across Van Buren County, the largest workplaces include Holtec International, Western Diversified Plastics and Van Buren ISD, and the county has seen jobs hold close to steady, with unemployment a little lower than a year ago.
Things to do. The Paw Paw River is a short drive away and is the nearest water. A longer drive brings you to the Kal-Haven Trail, a trail for walking and cycling, and to Grand Mere State Park, a protected area of natural shoreline. Gravel Lake is another lake within a longer drive, a place to be on the water in the warm months.
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- 18%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Van Buren County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Van Buren County had 21,582 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 60°. About 109 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bloomingdale weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Van Buren County
- Holtec InternationalSite remediation services1,400
- Western Diversified PlasticsMotor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing844
- Van Buren ISDSchool district591FTE
- Refresco Beverages Paw PawFruit juices, fresh, manufacturing383
- Mattawan Consolidated SchoolSchool district377FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters309
- Paw Paw Public School DistrictSchool district300FTE
- South Haven Public SchoolsSchool district257FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 62 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,243 people in all across the county; Lawrence has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Lawrence’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 Van Buren County.
Lawrence home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lawrence$244,984
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Lawrence 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.
- Lawrence38.25%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lawrence19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Lawrence address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lawrence — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.