Linden, Michigan.
Typical home $342,227 (+4.6% in a year). Flint, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$988 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,917 +5%
- $327,310$342,227 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $65,039 +23%
- $277,188$342,227 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.
- Linden$1,796
- 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 Linden, MI rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Linden, Genesee County, Michigan
Linden is a city of 4,142 people in Genesee County. Half its households earn more than $79,464 a year and half less, against $62,281 across Genesee County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% are rented. Unemployment in Genesee County was 5.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Genesee 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Linden is a small city in Genesee County where nearly everyone lives in a home they own, a much higher share than is typical. Incomes here run well above the county's, and few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are comfortably warm, with July the warmest; precipitation falls as rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing many. Some of the largest workplaces across Genesee County are Hurley Medical Center, McLaren Flint and Genesee ISD. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and few people work from home. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many other communities, and unemployment across the county has eased slightly over the past year.
Things to do. Close to town, Seven Lakes State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and Lake Fenton offers a lake, also a short drive away. The Fenton Museum is another short drive away. For a longer outing, the Flint Institute of Arts is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 1,556households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Genesee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Genesee County had 134,908 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 59°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Linden Wwtp weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Genesee County
- Hurley Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,267FTE
- Mclaren FlintGeneral hospital1,826FTE
- Genesys Regional Medical CTRGeneral hospital1,684FTE
- Genesee CountyGeneral services departments, government1,370
- Genesee ISDSchool district1,363FTE
- General MotorsGeneral warehousing and storage1,200
- Dortch EnterprisesFast-food restaurants1,095
- McLaren Medical GroupPhysicians' offices995
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 292 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 42,828 people in all across the county; Linden has one 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Linden’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 Genesee County and the Flint, MI metro.
Linden home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Linden$342,227
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Linden 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.
- Linden33.25%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Linden48
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Linden20
Zip codes with a Linden address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Linden — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.