Ovid, Michigan.
Typical home $194,646 (+3.9% in a year). Lansing-East Lansing, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$522 (+104%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,345 +4%
- $187,301$194,646 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,240 +17%
- $166,406$194,646 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.
- Ovid$1,022
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Ovid, MI rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ovid, Clinton County, Michigan
Ovid is a city of 1,481 people in Clinton County. Half its households earn more than $50,145 a year and half less, against $88,210 across Clinton County. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Clinton County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ovid is a small city in Clinton County, and the people who live here are younger on the whole than in many Michigan towns. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run well below the county's, as do the share of adults with a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest; precipitation, rain and melted snow together, falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Clinton County, some of the largest workplaces are WestRock CP, which handles printing and packaging, Invio Automation, a maker of jigs and fixtures for machine tools, and DeWitt Public Schools. Most people commute some distance to their jobs, and a small number work from home.
Things to do. The Little Maple River runs in or beside town, and Sleepy Hollow State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. Lake Ovid, a reservoir, is also a short drive, and Owosso Speedway offers racing for those who like it. For a longer outing, Potter Park Zoo is a longer drive away.
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- 561households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clinton County had 18,741 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Saint Johns weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clinton County
- WestRock CPPrinting/packaging430
- The Martin-Brower Company414
- Invio AutomationJigs and fixtures for use with machine tools manufacturing373
- Granger Waste ServicesWaste collection services, nonhazardous solid347
- DeWitt Public SchoolsSchool district321FTE
- St. Johns Public SchoolsSchool district319FTE
- MeijerRetail254
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters251
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 69 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,845 people in all across the county; Ovid has two 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
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ovid’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 Clinton County and the Lansing-East Lansing, MI metro.
Ovid home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ovid$194,646
- 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.
- Ovid7
Zip codes with a Ovid address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ovid — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.