Madison, Michigan.
Typical home $228,168 (+4.0% in a year). Adrian, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$646 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,747 +4%
- $219,421$228,168 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,754 +32%
- $172,414$228,168 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.
- Madison$1,198
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Madison, MI rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Madison, Lenawee County, Michigan
Madison is a township of 8,439 people in Lenawee County. Half its households earn more than $69,643 a year and half less, against $70,518 across Lenawee County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Lenawee County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Madison is a township in Lenawee County, in southern Michigan. Residents here are older than in much of the country, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is typical across the country.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and government also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in Madison are Walmart, the Madison School District and the steel shot abrasives maker Ervin Amasteel Adrian. Commutes are fairly typical, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Lake Hudson State Recreation Area, a protected area, and the Croswell Opera House, a historic theatre, are both a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Hidden Lake Gardens, a botanical garden, or to the Toledo Museum of Art. Winters are cold here, summers warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
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- 2,704households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lenawee County had 25,857 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more 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 84° and lows near 62°. About 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Adrian Lenawee County Airport weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Madison
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters310
- Adrian IntevaAwnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing273
- Madison School District (Lenawee)School district203FTE
- Sand Creek Community SchoolsSchool district123FTE
- Ervin Amasteel AdrianSteel shot abrasives manufacturing103
- Krieghoff LenaweeCommercial building construction general contractors50
- Kohl's41
- Prairie Elementary32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 809 people in all. 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Lenawee 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 Lenawee County and the Adrian, MI metro.
Madison home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Madison$228,168
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Madison 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.
- Madison37.73%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Madison20
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Madison6
Zip codes with a Madison address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Madison — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.