Marcellus, Michigan.
Typical home $247,147 (+6.3% in a year). South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$672 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,602 +6%
- $232,545$247,147 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,635 +21%
- $204,512$247,147 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.
- Marcellus$1,297
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Marcellus, MI rose 6.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Marcellus, Cass County, Michigan
Marcellus is a village of 1,074 people in Cass County. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Cass County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Marcellus is a small village in Cass County, Michigan, where most homes are lived in by their owners and the community is small enough that neighbors tend to know one another. Typical home values sit at a moderate level, and a smaller share of adults hold a four-year degree than is common across the country. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month and highs hovering around freezing, while summers are warm, with July the warmest month.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in wholesale. Across Cass County, some of the largest workplaces are Southwestern Michigan College, Creative Foam in Dowagiac, and the Edwardsburg Public Schools. Commutes are of middling length, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Lakes are the main draw close to the village: Gravel Lake, Corey Lake and Pleasant Lake are each a short drive away. Newton Woods, a protected area, is also a short drive from town. For a longer outing, the Air Zoo, an amusement park, is a longer drive away.
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- 414households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cass County had 9,582 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more 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, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cass County
- LaddGroup homes for the disabled without nursing care524
- Southwestern Michigan CollegeTwo-year college285
- Creative Foam - DowagiacFoam plastics products manufacturing283
- Edwardsburg Public SchoolsSchool district271FTE
- Dowagiac Union School DistrictSchool district262FTE
- Heritage Southwest Intermediate School DistrictSchool district185FTE
- Midwest Energy CooperativeCable laying, including underground178
- LakotaPlastics manufacturer172
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 38 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,076 people in all across the county; Marcellus has two of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Marcellus’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Cass County and the South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI metro.
Marcellus home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Marcellus$247,147
- 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.
- Marcellus16
Zip codes with a Marcellus address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Marcellus — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.