Levering, Michigan.
Typical home $275,163 (+8.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$845 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,242 +8%
- $253,920$275,163 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,027 +24%
- $222,135$275,163 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.
- Levering$1,444
- 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 Levering, MI rose 8.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Levering, Emmet County, Michigan
Levering, in Emmet County, had 176 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Emmet County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Emmet County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Levering is a very small community in Emmet County, in the northern part of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month and sub-freezing highs, while July is the warmest and brings comfortable summer days. The typical home here is worth more than the typical home in many parts of the country.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Emmet County, some of the largest workplaces are McLaren Northern Michigan, a general hospital, and the Public Schools of Petoskey, alongside Walmart. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than it was a year ago, and the county has added a small number of jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Wilderness State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, and so are Douglas Lake and French Farm Lake, both good for time on the water. A longer drive brings you to Mackinac Island State Park and Fort Mackinac, a fort that looks out over the straits.
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What people in Emmet County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Emmet County had 17,859 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 54°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pellston Airport #2 weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Emmet County
- Mclaren Northern MichiganGeneral hospital755FTE
- Public Schools of PetoskeySchool district339FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters294
- MeijerRetail243
- Inn at Bay HarborHotels, resort, without casinos229
- MantheiHardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing164
- Yazaki Northern MichiganContacts, electrical, manufacturing153
- Bay Bluffs Emmet County Medical Care FacilitySkilled nursing facilities143
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 42 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,112 people in all across the county; Levering has none of its own. Hospitals come 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Levering’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 Emmet County.
Levering home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Levering$275,163
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Levering9
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Levering address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Levering — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.