Northview, Michigan.
Typical home $357,259 (+6.0% in a year), asking rent $1,289 . Grand Rapids-Kentwood, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,059 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,204 +6%
- $337,055$357,259 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $85,046 +31%
- $272,213$357,259 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.
- Northview$1,875
- 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 Northview, MI rose 6.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Northview, Kent County, Michigan
Northview, in Kent County, had 15,301 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $85,403 a year and half less, against $82,631 across Kent County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Kent County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Northview is a community in Kent County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run a little above the county's. The population is middle-aged, and a four-year degree is held by a sizeable minority of adults. Winters are cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days and the year is fairly wet overall.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and restaurants and hotels also employing a good share. Among the largest workplaces in Northview are Northview Public Schools, Meijer and Lear Corporation - Grand Rapids - Woodfield. Commutes are fairly short, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Rogue River and Lamberton Lake are in or beside town, for time by the water. A short drive away are Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, a botanical garden, and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum. For a longer outing, the North Country Trail is a longer drive away.
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- 6,344households
- 39%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kent County had 417,408 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 75 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the East Grand Rapids weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Northview
- Northview Public SchoolsSchool district378FTE
- MeijerRetail280
- Lear Corporation - Grand Rapids - WoodfieldAutomotive supplier242
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter184
- Beeke InvestmentsHome improvement54
- MH Village / DataCompAgricultural property rental leasing54
- Russ' Restaurant of PlainfieldRestaurants, full service51
- SpartanNashSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores50
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,017 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 high in parts of NorthviewRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of NorthviewRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Northview’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 Kent County and the Grand Rapids-Kentwood, MI metro.
Northview home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Northview$357,259
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Northview listings, and the typical home goes pending in 9 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Northview36.19%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Northview9
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Northview43
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Northview24
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Northview$339,887
- United States$371,553
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Northview address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Northview — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.