Paradise, Michigan.
Typical home $196,543 (+5.6% in a year). Sault Ste. Marie, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$525 (+104%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,396 +6%
- $186,146$196,543 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,774 +20%
- $163,768$196,543 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.
- Paradise$1,032
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Paradise, MI rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Paradise, Chippewa County, Michigan
The Census does not count Paradise on its own, so the figures here are Chippewa County's. Half the county's households earn more than $62,217 a year and half less; 14% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 75% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Chippewa County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Chippewa County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Paradise is a small town in Chippewa County, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, on the shore of Lake Superior. Most homes here are lived in by their owners rather than rented. Many residents have lived in the area for years, and the town has the quiet feel of a place where people know one another.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in shops, or in government. Across Chippewa County, unemployment is lower than it was a year ago, and the number of jobs has held steady. Most people drive to work, and few work from home. A minority of adults hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. Tahquamenon Falls, a waterfall a short drive away, is one of the best known sights in the area. Tahquamenon Falls State Park, a protected area also a short drive away, offers a place to walk among the trees and water. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum is a longer drive away and is worth the trip for anyone interested in the history of the lakes.
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- 14,080households
- 41.6median age
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Chippewa County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chippewa County had 12,796 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 23° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 76° and lows near 50°. About 170 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tahquamenon Falls Sp weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chippewa County
- Mymichigan Medical Center SaultGeneral hospital610FTE
- Sault Tribe of Chippewa IndiansHotels, resort, with casinos541
- Lake Superior State UniversityUniversity or college362
- Michigan Department of CorrectionsCorrectional institutions362
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters337
- Sault Ste. Marie Area SchoolsSchool district248FTE
- Michigan Department of CorrectionsCorrectional institutions229
- MeijerRetail222
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,794 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Chippewa County, 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 Chippewa County and the Sault Ste. Marie, MI metro.
Paradise home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Paradise$196,543
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Paradise listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Paradise15.10%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Paradise21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Paradise address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Paradise — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.