Mulliken, Michigan.
Typical home $242,029 (+5.3% in a year). Lansing-East Lansing, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$669 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,241 +5%
- $229,788$242,029 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,509 +25%
- $193,520$242,029 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.
- Mulliken$1,270
- 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 Mulliken, MI rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mulliken, Eaton County, Michigan
Mulliken is a village of 525 people in Eaton County. Half its households earn more than $81,429 a year and half less, against $79,597 across Eaton County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. Unemployment in Eaton County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mulliken is a small village in Eaton County, and almost everyone who lives there owns their home, far more than across the county as a whole. Residents are younger than in many small towns, and household incomes run a little above the county's, with fewer people living below the poverty line than in many places. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days, and the year is fairly wet.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, banking and insurance, and the building trades. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults here than in many places, and the typical commute is a moderate drive, with a small group working from home. Across Eaton County, larger workplaces include General Motoros, the State of Michigan and Amazon, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The Little Thornapple River and the Looking Glass River are both a short drive away, good for time by the water. A longer drive brings you to Potter Park Zoo and the R. E. Olds Transportation Museum, a pair of outings that suit a day away from home.
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- 188households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Eaton County had 45,625 jobs in 2025, 2.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 38 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Charlotte weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Eaton County
- General MotorosAssembly plants, light trucks on chassis of own manufacture3,539
- State of MichiganState government882
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage848
- Bridgewater InteriorsMotor vehicle seats manufacturing740
- Mich State Police HeadquartersState police714
- Grand Ledge Public SchoolsSchool district635FTE
- LG Energy SolutionLithium batteries manufacturing612
- MeijerRetail602
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 136 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 23,277 people in all across the county; Mulliken has none of its own. 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 Mulliken’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 Eaton County and the Lansing-East Lansing, MI metro.
Mulliken home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mulliken$242,029
- 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.
- Mulliken5
Zip codes with a Mulliken address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mulliken — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.