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Isabella County, Michigan.

Typical home $229,324 (+7.9% in a year), asking rent $1,112 (+9.7%). Mount Pleasant, MI metro.

What it costs per month · Isabella County, MI $1,204/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$627 (+109%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $16,707 +8%
$212,617$229,324 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $38,549 +20%
$190,774$229,324 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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Isabella County $1,204 Michigan $1,384 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Isabella County$1,204
  • Michigan$1,384
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.

Typical home values in Isabella County, MI rose 7.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.

Asking rents in Isabella County, MI rose 9.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.

Owning the typical home in Isabella County, MI runs $592/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $698 in Oct 2023.

That is $1,704 a month against $1,112 rent: a $1,204 mortgage payment, plus $255 property tax and $246 insurance & upkeep.

Owning vs renting — Isabella County, MI

The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.

$1,000 $1,250 $1,500 $1,750 2023 2024 2025 2026 Owning all in $1,704 Renting $1,112 Mortgage only $1,204
$1,000 $1,250 $1,500 $1,750 2023 2024 2025 2026
  • Owning all in$1,704
  • Renting$1,112
  • Mortgage only$1,204

Property tax · $255/mo 1.34% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Isabella County, MI

Insurance & upkeep · $246/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.

Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.

Isabella County, MI home values

Against the state and national figures. Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$150,000 $200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 Isabella County $229,324 Michigan $263,760 United States $366,157
$150,000 $200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 2018 2022 2026
  • Isabella County$229,324
  • Michigan$263,760
  • United States$366,157

Property taxes

The Census’s survey of what owners say they pay. Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s.

Median bill $2,276/yr ACS 2020–2024 · on a $170,400 median home
Effective rate 1.34% median bill ÷ median value, same survey · ACS 1-year 2024: 1.36% on a one-year window
On the 2026 roll $1,980/yr median bill on current assessment rolls, effective 0.90% — AssessorSearch Data Lab, shown because it agrees with the official levels above
Payment ÷ income 27% of the median household income ($55,237, ACS 2020–2024) — 30% is the standard affordability line
HUD Fair Market Rent $1,013/mo two-bedroom, FY2026 — the official benchmark housing assistance is priced against
Where the bill is headed $3,063/yr an estimate: that same rate on today's $229,324 typical value — reassessment hasn't finished catching up

Got this county's reappraisal notice in hand? Check your property taxes — anonymous, and it helps close the two-year data gap.

The reassessment wedge (index, Dec 2017 = 100)

Home values move monthly; tax bills move when the assessor catches up. The space between the lines is the catch-up still to come — tax data is ACS, roughly two years behind, and that lag is the point. Where a roll segment appears, named by its release year, it bridges to the median bill on current assessment rolls (AssessorSearch Data Lab, a different instrument, shown only where it agrees with ACS levels).

100 120 140 160 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Home value 166 Median tax bill 120 2026 roll 104
100 120 140 160 2018 2022 2026
  • Home value166
  • Median tax bill120
  • 2026 roll104

Zip codes in Isabella County, MI

By share of each zip's area inside this county — a zip straddling a boundary appears here and in its neighbour, which is the truth of it.

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48893 Weidman 100% — — $230,746 +7.6%
48878 Rosebush 100% — — $228,106 +10.4%
48858 Mount Pleasant 99% $1,123 +9.7% $226,651 +6.9%
48883 Shepherd 65% — — $224,733 +8.9%
49310 Blanchard 63% — — $226,336 +7.5%
48622 Farwell 36% — — $202,348 +10.4%
48617 Clare 35% — — $223,637 +10.6%
48632 Lake 31% — — $180,395 +10.2%
49340 Remus 29% — — $208,628 +8.9%
48618 Coleman 21% — — $199,297 +5.7%
49305 Barryton 16% — — $143,010 +2.3%
48877 Riverdale 13% — — $191,223 +7.8%
48880 Saint Louis 8% — — $167,609 +3.3%
48829 Edmore 4% — — $202,385 +7.1%