Montague, Michigan.
Typical home $277,865 (+4.5% in a year). Muskegon, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$834 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,082 +5%
- $265,784$277,865 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $58,889 +27%
- $218,976$277,865 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.
- Montague$1,458
- 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 Montague, MI rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Montague, Muskegon County, Michigan
Montague is a city of 2,417 people in Muskegon County. Half its households earn more than $66,750 a year and half less, against $65,024 across Muskegon County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Muskegon County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Montague is a small city where most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run a little above the county's. Fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect, and typical home values are well within reach of a middle-income household. Winters are cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are mild and warm in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Aludyne, Montague Area Public Schools and Tower Laboratories are among the largest workplaces in town. Commutes are short, and only a small number of people work from home, though across Muskegon County jobs have slipped over the past year and unemployment has eased slightly.
Things to do. The White River and Michigan Heritage Park, a museum, are in or beside town. A short drive away are Michigan's Adventure, an amusement park, and Duck Lake State Park, a protected area. Muskegon Lake is a longer drive away for those who want bigger water.
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- 986households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Muskegon County had 62,026 jobs in 2025, 2.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 58°. About 69 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Montague Northwest weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Montague
- AludyneAluminum die-casting foundries365
- Montague Area Public SchoolsSchool district170FTE
- Tower LaboratoriesPharmaceutical preparations manufacturing97
- MasterTagCommercial printing69
- KB GrocersGrocery stores51
- ShellcastSteel investment foundries26
- MontagueMail and parcel delivery25
- Double L EnterprisesLandscape installation services20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 653 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 moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Montague’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Muskegon County and the Muskegon, MI metro.
Montague home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Montague$277,865
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Montague 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.
- Montague34.45%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Montague30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Montague12
Zip codes with a Montague address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Montague — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.