Mattawan, Michigan.
Typical home $359,151 (+2.7% in a year). Kalamazoo-Portage, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$985 (+109%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,534 +3%
- $349,617$359,151 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,556 +19%
- $301,595$359,151 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.
- Mattawan$1,885
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Mattawan, MI rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mattawan, Van Buren County, Michigan
Mattawan is a village of 2,550 people in Van Buren County. Half its households earn more than $61,587 a year and half less, against $68,114 across Van Buren County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Van Buren County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mattawan is a small village in Van Buren County, and most homes here are lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the county's, and the typical home value is fairly high for a place this size. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, peaking in July. Rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, professional and business services, schools and hospitals, and banks, insurance and property. Among the largest workplaces in Mattawan are Western Diversified Plastics, which makes motor vehicle moldings and extrusions, the Mattawan Consolidated School district, and Mol-Son, a maker of industrial molds. Commutes are short, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. The Paw Paw River and the Al Sabo Preserve, a protected natural area, are each a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Air Zoo, an amusement park, and Austin Lake are a longer drive away. Together they offer water, woods and a day out for visitors and neighbors alike.
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- 1,107households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Van Buren County had 21,582 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 62°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kalamazoo Battle Ck International Airport weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mattawan
- Western Diversified PlasticsMotor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing844
- Mattawan Consolidated SchoolSchool district377FTE
- Mol-SonMolds, industrial, manufacturing89
- SIKA - MattawanConstruction adhesives manufacturing42
- Tri-Mation Industries30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,455 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
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mattawan’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 Van Buren County and the Kalamazoo-Portage, MI metro.
Mattawan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mattawan$359,151
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Mattawan listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Mattawan39.55%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mattawan40
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mattawan18
Zip codes with a Mattawan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mattawan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.