New Era, Michigan.
Typical home $252,324 (+7.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$731 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,424 +8%
- $233,900$252,324 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,913 +18%
- $214,411$252,324 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.
- New Era$1,324
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in New Era, MI rose 7.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in New Era, Oceana County, Michigan
New Era is a village of 446 people in Oceana County. Half its households earn more than $77,125 a year and half less, against $62,417 across Oceana 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 Oceana County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. New Era is a very small village in Oceana County where almost everyone owns the home they live in. Residents are older than in most American places, and household incomes run higher than across the county as a whole. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are mild and warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, banking and insurance, and government also common. The biggest workplaces across Oceana County include fruit and vegetable processors such as Peterson Farms and Michigan Freeze Pack, along with the Hart Public School District. Commutes are typically moderate in length, and some people work from home.
Things to do. The Hart-Montague Trail State Park runs in or beside town, a protected area that makes an easy outing close to home. The White River is a short drive away for time by the water. For a longer day out, Silver Lake State Park, another protected area, and the amusement park Michigan's Adventure are both a longer drive away.
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- 183households
- 8%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Oceana County had 6,510 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more 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, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Oceana County
- Peterson FarmsFrozen fruit and vegetable processing452
- Michigan Freeze PackVegetables, frozen, manufacturing417
- OPC Arbre FarmsFrozen fruit and vegetable processing410
- Hart Public School DistrictSchool district270FTE
- Gray & CompanyCanning fruits and vegetables248
- Oceana County Medical Care FacilityNursing homes240
- Peterson Farms FreshFruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers239
- Shelby Public SchoolsSchool district196FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 24 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,416 people in all across the county; New Era has one 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 windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 New Era’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Oceana County.
New Era home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- New Era$252,324
- 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.
- New Era8
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a New Era address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls New Era — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.