Mason, Michigan.
Typical home $276,833 (+2.4% in a year), asking rent $1,610 . Lansing-East Lansing, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$763 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,365 +2%
- $270,468$276,833 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,300 +25%
- $221,533$276,833 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.
- Mason$1,453
- 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 Mason, MI rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mason, Ingham County, Michigan
Mason is a city of 8,283 people in Ingham County. Half its households earn more than $79,117 a year and half less, against $65,526 across Ingham County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Ingham County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mason is a small city and the county seat of Ingham County, in the middle of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Residents are somewhat older than in many places, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run higher than across the county as a whole, and fewer people live below the poverty line than in many communities. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July, with a good amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with restaurants, hotels and entertainment, shops, and professional and business services also common. Among the largest workplaces in Mason are Mason Public Schools, Gestamp Mason, a metal stamping manufacturer, and Meijer. The typical commute is a moderate one, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. Crego Park and Toumey Woods, a protected area, are both a short drive away for time outdoors. The Michigan State University Horticulture Gardens are also a short drive off, and the W. J. Beal Botanical Garden is a longer drive. For a day out, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum is a longer drive away.
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- 3,407households
- 37%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ingham County had 155,298 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 36 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the East Lansing South weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mason
- Mason Public Schools (Ingham)School district489FTE
- Gestamp MasonMotor vehicle metal stampings manufacturing450
- MeijerRetail273
- Packaging Corporation of America177
- Ingham County76
- VitalCore Health StrategiesHome nursing services, private practice36
- MasonMail and parcel delivery30
- Nitrex MI OperationsBrazing metals and metal products for the trade30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,092 people in all. School districts come 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mason’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 Ingham County and the Lansing-East Lansing, MI metro.
Mason home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mason$276,833
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Mason listings, and the typical home goes pending in 12 days — the market is heating up.
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.
- Mason27.86%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Mason12
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mason55
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mason25
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Mason$292,850
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Mason address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mason — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.