Coleman, Michigan.
Typical home $196,994 (+5.9% in a year). Midland, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$583 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,041 +6%
- $185,953$196,994 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,052 +28%
- $153,942$196,994 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.
- Coleman$1,034
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Coleman, MI rose 5.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Coleman, Midland County, Michigan
Coleman is a city of 1,262 people in Midland County. Half its households earn more than $47,868 a year and half less, against $77,705 across Midland County. 60% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 40% are rented. Unemployment in Midland County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Midland County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Coleman is a small city in Midland County, Michigan, with a population on the smaller side and residents who skew a little older than the typical American community. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run well below the county's overall. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are comfortably warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops. Across Midland County, some of the largest workplaces are Dow, Midland Public Schools and Northwood University. A four-year degree is less common here than in many places, and the typical commute is moderate, with very few people working from home.
Things to do. The Tobacco River is a river a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Wixom Lake, a reservoir, and to Wilson State Park, a protected area. Sanford Lake is another lake within a longer drive, so the water is the main draw for time outdoors.
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- 599households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 23 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Midland County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Midland County had 38,301 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 57°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oil City 2S weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Midland County
- DowSilicone manufacturing2,197
- Midland Public SchoolsSchool district913FTE
- Midland Corteva AgrisciencesPesticides manufacturing529
- Northwood UniversityUniversity or college498
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters344
- Fisher Contracting CoUtility line, construction329
- Three RiversCommercial building construction general contractors315
- MeijerRetail306
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 73 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,527 people in all across the county; Coleman has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Coleman’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 Midland County and the Midland, MI metro.
Coleman home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Coleman$196,994
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Coleman 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.
- Coleman25.24%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Coleman20
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Coleman7
Zip codes with a Coleman address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Coleman — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.