Leslie, Michigan.
Typical home $236,709 (+1.4% in a year). Lansing-East Lansing, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$657 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,210 +1%
- $233,499$236,709 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,888 +24%
- $190,822$236,709 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.
- Leslie$1,242
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Leslie, MI rose 1.4% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Leslie, Ingham County, Michigan
Leslie is a city of 1,927 people in Ingham County. Half its households earn more than $73,654 a year and half less, against $65,526 across Ingham County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Ingham County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Leslie is a small city in Ingham County, and most homes there are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run above the county's, and residents are on the younger side. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, banks, insurance and property, and professional and business services also well represented. Across Ingham County, the largest workplaces include Michigan State University, Edward W. Sparrow Hospital and the State of Michigan. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many towns, and a commute usually takes a good part of an hour in total each day.
Things to do. Huntoon Lake lies in or beside town, which makes it the easiest place for time near the water. Meridian-Baseline State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. For a day out with more to see, Potter Park Zoo is a longer drive away.
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- 774households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ingham County had 155,298 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 61°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Eaton Rapids weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ingham County
- Michigan State UniversityUniversity or college13,601
- Edward W. Sparrow HospitalGeneral hospital4,617FTE
- Mclaren Greater LansingGeneral hospital1,703FTE
- Lansing Community CollegeTwo-year college1,698
- State of MichiganState government1,574
- Lansing Public School DistrictSchool district1,546FTE
- Dakkota Integrated SystemsAutomotive, truck and bus suspension assemblies and parts manufacturing1,395
- City of LansingLegislative and executive office combinations1,365
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 257 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 37,534 people in all across the county; Leslie has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Leslie’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 Ingham County and the Lansing-East Lansing, MI metro.
Leslie home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Leslie$236,709
- 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.
- Leslie13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Leslie6
Zip codes with a Leslie address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Leslie — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.