Moran, Michigan.
Typical home $226,219 (+6.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$687 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,474 +6%
- $212,745$226,219 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,737 +31%
- $172,481$226,219 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.
- Moran$1,187
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Moran, MI rose 6.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Moran, Mackinac County, Michigan
Moran is a township of 1,029 people in Mackinac County. Half its households earn more than $68,059 a year and half less, against $63,909 across Mackinac County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Mackinac County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Moran is a small township in Mackinac County, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run a little above the county's. Winters are long, cold and very snowy, and summers are mild and warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Mackinac County, some of the largest workplaces are Grand Hotel, Mackinac Straits Health System and St. Ignace Area Schools. Unemployment is low and has changed very little over the past year, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The Little Brevoort River runs in or beside town, and the Brevoort River and Brevoort Lake are a short drive away, good for time on the water. A longer drive brings you to Fort Mackinac, a historic fort, and Mackinac Island State Park, a protected area. Both fit well into a day trip.
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- 501households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mackinac County had 4,804 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 54°. About 81 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Moran weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mackinac County
- Grand HotelHotel management services404
- Mackinac Straits Health SystemCritical access hospital198FTE
- Chippewa Hotel CompanyHotels, seasonal, without casinos105
- Mackinac Island Ferry CompanyCoastal passenger transportation to and from domestic ports100
- St. Ignace Area SchoolsSchool district59FTE
- Engadine Consolidated SchoolsSchool district55FTE
- The Inn At Stonecliffe5454
- Flotation Docking SystemsDock construction33
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 815 people in all across the county; Moran has none of its own. 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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Mackinac County, 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 Mackinac County.
Moran home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Moran$226,219
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
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.
- Moran8
Zip codes with a Moran address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Moran — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.