Zip lookup · MI

49546
Kentwood, Michigan.

Kentwood, Kent County, MI · Grand Rapids-Kentwood, MI metro · population 34,721

What it costs per month · 49546 $2,677/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,513 (+130%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $26,461 +5%
$483,506$509,967 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $122,368 +32%
$387,598$509,967 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 $2,500 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 49546 $2,677 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 $2,500 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • 49546$2,677
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.

Typical home values in zip 49546 rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.

Asking rents in zip 49546 rose 7.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.

Owning the typical home in zip 49546 runs $1,935/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.

That is $3,694 a month against $1,759 rent: a $2,677 mortgage payment, plus $472 property tax and $546 insurance & upkeep.

Owning vs renting — zip 49546

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.

$1,500 $2,000 $2,500 $3,000 $3,500 2024 2025 2026 Owning all in $3,694 Renting $1,759 Mortgage only $2,677
$1,500 $2,000 $2,500 $3,000 $3,500 2024 2025 2026
  • Owning all in$3,694
  • Renting$1,759
  • Mortgage only$2,677

Property tax · $472/mo 1.11% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Kent County, MI

Insurance & upkeep · $546/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.

Zillow also publishes an index for the city itself: Kentwood, MI — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.

Asking rent $1,759 as of Sep 2026
+7.1%year on year
Typical home value $509,967 as of Sep 2026
+5.5%year on year

Asking rent — 49546

Against the Grand Rapids-Kentwood, MI metro and the national benchmark.

$1,500 $1,600 $1,700 $1,800 $1,900 2024 2025 2026 49546 $1,759 Grand Rapids $1,614 United States $1,932
$1,500 $1,600 $1,700 $1,800 $1,900 2024 2025 2026
  • 49546$1,759
  • Grand Rapids$1,614
  • United States$1,932

Typical home value — 49546

Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$200,000 $300,000 $400,000 $500,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 49546 $509,967 Grand Rapids $355,636 United States $366,157
$200,000 $300,000 $400,000 $500,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 49546$509,967
  • Grand Rapids$355,636
  • United States$366,157

Within 20 miles

Showing 30 of 33 zips in range — sorting picks from all 33.

10 mi 20 mi 50 mi
Miles Zip City Population Rent Home value
3.2 49512 Grand Rapids 18,373 $1,603 $364,606
4.1 49506 Grand Rapids 34,673 $1,846 $427,849
4.5 49301 Ada 19,846 $2,472 $665,233
5.9 49508 Grand Rapids 42,720 $1,779 $337,101
6.0 49507 Grand Rapids 38,487 $1,690 $237,579
6.6 49503 Grand Rapids 39,489 $1,506 $282,318
7.0 49525 Grand Rapids 30,887 $1,729 $382,368
7.0 49505 Grand Rapids 32,426 $1,869 $301,495
7.6 49548 Grand Rapids 34,777 $1,424 $253,388
8.2 49509 Wyoming 28,152 $1,442 $262,026
9.2 49316 Caledonia 26,427 $2,221 $442,713
9.5 49504 Grand Rapids 40,036 $1,384 $285,962
9.5 49519 Wyoming 27,965 $1,390 $295,796
9.5 49331 Lowell 17,661 — $410,551
10.1 49302 Alto 9,754 — $502,927
10.1 49306 Belmont 11,028 — $495,614
12.4 49418 Grandville 31,913 $2,027 $380,537
12.5 49321 Comstock Park 15,970 $1,271 $347,904
13.1 49534 Grand Rapids 23,719 $1,922 $385,996
13.2 49544 Grand Rapids 9,631 $1,492 $347,205
13.4 49315 Byron Center 27,091 $1,942 $461,964
13.7 49341 Rockford 39,409 $1,890 $458,773
15.2 49428 Jenison 28,209 $1,998 $366,072
15.5 48815 Clarksville 2,364 — $305,778
16.5 49333 Middleville 12,753 — $371,125
16.5 49325 Freeport 2,596 — $317,352
16.8 49435 Marne 3,831 — $418,961
16.9 48881 Saranac 5,499 — $302,433
17.0 48809 Belding 11,038 — $272,056
17.4 49348 Wayland 13,699 $1,700 $346,686

Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.