Northville, Michigan.
Typical home $589,883 (+4.4% in a year), asking rent $1,736 (+5.6%). Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,621 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $24,872 +4%
- $565,010$589,883 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $130,915 +29%
- $458,967$589,883 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.
- Northville$3,096
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Northville, MI rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Northville, MI rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Northville runs $2,791/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $4,527 a month against $1,736 rent: a $3,096 mortgage payment, plus $800 property tax and $632 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Northville
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$4,527
- Renting$1,736
- Mortgage only$3,096
Property tax · $800/mo 1.63% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Wayne County, MI
Insurance & upkeep · $632/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Northville, Wayne County, Michigan
Northville is a city of 6,119 people in Wayne County. Half its households earn more than $145,530 a year and half less, against $60,539 across Wayne County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Wayne County was 6.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, 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. Northville is a small city where most homes are lived in by their owners, and residents are older than in many places, with incomes well above Wayne County's and very few households living below the poverty line. A large majority of adults have a four-year degree, and typical home values and rents are on the high side. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days and a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in manufacturing, with banks, insurance and property also employing many. In Northville itself, the largest workplaces include Northville Public Schools and Kroger Michigan KMA. A good share of people work from home, and those who commute spend a moderate amount of time getting to work. Across Wayne County, unemployment has risen over the past year and the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. The Holocaust Memorial Center, a museum, is a short drive away. Farther afield, the Detroit Institute of Arts is one of the region's best-known museums, and The Henry Ford is another museum, both a longer drive away. Michigan Stadium, a stadium, is also a longer drive from town.
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- 2,620households
- 68%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 35%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wayne County had 721,389 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 60°. About 36 inches of snow and 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Farmington weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Northville
- Northville Public SchoolsSchool district843FTE
- Kroger Michigan KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores91
- NorthvilleMail and parcel delivery62
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 153 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
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Northville’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 Wayne County and the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
Northville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Northville$589,883
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Northville listings, and the typical home goes pending in 15 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.
- Northville30.84%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Northville15
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Northville173
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Northville63
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Northville$515,334
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Northville100.25%
Zip codes with a Northville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Northville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Northville
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48168 | Northville | 25,038 | $2,648 | $652,361 |
| 48167 | Northville | 24,713 | $1,671 | $491,966 |