Mesick, Michigan.
Typical home $208,781 (+1.7% in a year). Cadillac, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$648 (+145%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,481 +2%
- $205,300$208,781 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,000 +26%
- $165,781$208,781 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.
- Mesick$1,096
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Mesick, MI rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mesick, Wexford County, Michigan
Mesick is a village of 397 people in Wexford County. Half its households earn more than $41,094 a year and half less, against $61,085 across Wexford County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Wexford County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mesick is a small village, one of the smaller communities in Wexford County, where incomes run well below the county's as a whole. More households here live in homes they own than rent, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades and in manufacturing. Across Wexford County, the largest workplaces include AAR, Cadillac Casting and Cadillac Area Public Schools. Many people drive a fair distance to work, and the county has lost a few jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The Manistee River Trail is a trail only a short drive away, and the Manistee River is a natural draw for walking and time outdoors. Farther afield, Lake Cadillac is a lake and Caberfae Peaks Ski & Golf Resort is a ski area, both a longer drive away. Those who like water will find several lakes and rivers in the surrounding countryside.
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- 165households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wexford County had 13,082 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 54°. About 120 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wellston 1N weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wexford County
- AARPrefabricated buildings, metal, manufacturing472
- Cadillac CastingCastings, unfinished iron, manufacturing429
- Cadillac Area Public SchoolsSchool district421FTE
- Munson Healthcare Cadillac HospitalGeneral hospital414FTE
- Legacy LaborFarm labor contractors349
- Hutchinson Antivibration (Cadillac)Mechanical rubber goods manufacturing336
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters317
- MeijerRetail238
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 42 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,918 people in all across the county; Mesick has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mesick’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 Wexford County and the Cadillac, MI metro.
Mesick home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mesick$208,781
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mesick16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mesick6
Zip codes with a Mesick address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mesick — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.