Palms, Michigan.
Typical home $226,881 (+2.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$244 (+26%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $6,354 +3%
- $220,527$226,881 since Sep 2025
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.
- Palms$1,191
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Palms, MI rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Palms, Sanilac County, Michigan
The Census does not count Palms on its own, so the figures here are Sanilac County's. Half the county's households earn more than $58,863 a year and half less; 15% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 83% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Sanilac County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sanilac County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Palms lies in Sanilac County in Michigan's Thumb region. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, more than across the country as a whole. The county's population is older than the nation's, its incomes are below the nation's, and more residents live below the poverty line than across the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Across Sanilac County, many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in retail shops, and in the building trades. Unemployment has eased over the past year, though the county had slightly fewer jobs in the latest year than the year before. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The White River is a river a short drive away. Sanilac Petroglyphs Historic State Park, one of the best known sites nearby, is an archaeological site a longer drive away. The Harbor Beach Community House, also a longer drive away, is a theatre.
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- 17,516households
- 45.5median age
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Sanilac County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sanilac County had 10,347 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 60°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sandusky weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sanilac County
- HuronPrecision turned product manufacturing453
- Gielow PicklesCanning fruits and vegetables362
- Michigan Sugar CompanyGranulated beet sugar manufacturing289
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters252
- Cotterman Company - Michigan DivisionLadders, portable metal, manufacturing248
- Croswell-Lexington Community SchoolsSchool district245FTE
- Marlette Regional HospitalCritical access hospital230FTE
- Gemini PlasticsMotor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing181
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 27 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,227 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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 high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Sanilac County, 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 Sanilac County.
Palms home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Palms$226,881
- 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.
Zip codes with a Palms address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Palms — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.