Leonidas, Michigan.
Typical home $204,879 (+6.0% in a year). Sturgis, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$499 (+87%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,582 +6%
- $193,297$204,879 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $24,998 +14%
- $179,881$204,879 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.
- Leonidas$1,075
- 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 Leonidas, MI rose 6.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Leonidas, St. Joseph County, Michigan
Leonidas is a township of 1,161 people in St. Joseph County. Half its households earn more than $70,673 a year and half less, against $66,425 across St. Joseph County; 23% of its people live below the poverty line. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in St. Joseph County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Leonidas is a small township in St. Joseph County, Michigan, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes run a little above the county's, though a notable part of residents live below the poverty line, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest and plenty of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing and the building trades, along with other services and professional and business services. Across St. Joseph County, some of the biggest employers are AAM, which makes axle assemblies, Abbott, which makes dairy products, and Morgan Olson, which assembles truck bodies. Few people in the township work from home, and a typical commute is fairly long, which suits a place where most jobs are found in other towns. Unemployment across the county is unchanged from a year ago, and the county has somewhat fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Portage Lake is a lake a short drive away, and it is the closest of the nearby waters. A longer drive brings you to Austin Lake and, among the rivers, the Rocky River. For a family outing, the Air Zoo is an amusement park that is also a longer drive away.
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- 379households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 23%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Joseph County had 20,801 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 41 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Three Rivers weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St. Joseph County
- AAMDifferential and rear axle assemblies, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing1,300
- AbbottDry condensed and evap dairy product manufacturing719
- Morgan Olson Plant 5Truck bodies assembling on purchased chassis378
- Sturgis Public SchoolsSchool district334FTE
- Three Rivers Community SchoolsSchool district326FTE
- TH Plastics - Plant 2Motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing299
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters299
- Jergens PipingPlumbing and heating contractors275
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 63 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,897 people in all across the county; Leonidas has none 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 moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across St. Joseph County, 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 St. Joseph County and the Sturgis, MI metro.
Leonidas home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Leonidas$204,879
- 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.
- Leonidas5
Zip codes with a Leonidas address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Leonidas — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.