Marlette, Michigan.
Typical home $175,902 (+0.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$392 (+74%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,274 +1%
- $174,628$175,902 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $16,926 -9%
- $192,828$175,902 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.
- Marlette$923
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Marlette, MI rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Marlette, Sanilac County, Michigan
Marlette is a city of 1,855 people in Sanilac County. Half its households earn more than $48,571 a year and half less, against $58,863 across Sanilac County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 56% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 44% are rented. Unemployment in Sanilac County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Marlette is a small city in Sanilac County, in Michigan's Thumb region, with a population on the small side even for the area. Residents tend to be of middle age, and incomes run below the county's, with a fair share of households living below the poverty line. More homes are lived in by their owners than rented, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, while July brings pleasantly warm days.
Work. People in Marlette work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants and hotels, and in shops. Marlette Regional Hospital, the clamp maker Oetiker and Marlette Community Schools are among the largest workplaces in town. Unemployment across Sanilac County has eased a little over the past year, though the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier. Most people commute to work rather than working from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Murphy Lake and General Squier Memorial Park offer water and open green space, each a longer drive away. History is close at hand too, since Sanilac Petroglyphs Historic State Park, an archaeological site with ancient rock carvings, is also a longer drive from town. The Flint River, another longer drive away, suits anyone who enjoys a day by the water.
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- 790households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sanilac County had 10,347 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 60°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sandusky weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marlette
- Marlette Regional HospitalCritical access hospital230FTE
- OetikerClamps manufacterer150
- Grupo Antolin Michigan Inc-MichiganMotor vehicle interior systems manufacturing136
- Marlette Community SchoolsSchool district88FTE
- Culligan-MarletteWater softener installation34
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 320 people in all. 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Marlette’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Sanilac County.
Marlette home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Marlette$175,902
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Marlette 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.
- Marlette28.59%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Marlette21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Marlette6
Zip codes with a Marlette address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Marlette — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.