Pickford, Michigan.
Typical home $204,334 (+7.3% in a year). Sault Ste. Marie, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$598 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,822 +7%
- $190,511$204,334 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $40,001 +24%
- $164,333$204,334 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.
- Pickford$1,072
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Pickford, MI rose 7.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pickford, Chippewa County, Michigan
Pickford is a township of 2,791 people in Chippewa County. Half its households earn more than $99,688 a year and half less, against $62,217 across Chippewa County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% 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 residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pickford is a township in Chippewa County, in Michigan's eastern Upper Peninsula. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, and household incomes run well above the county's, with very few residents living in poverty. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are pleasantly warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, shops, and banks, insurance and property. Across Chippewa County, the largest workplaces include Mymichigan Medical Center Sault, the Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians and Lake Superior State University. The typical commute is a moderate one, and a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. The Munuscong River and the Little Munuscong River are both a short drive away, good for time by the water. A longer drive brings you to the St. Marys River and to Mackinac Island State Park, a protected area, with Fort Mackinac also within reach for those who enjoy history.
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- 637households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents 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 25° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 53°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pickford 3NE weather station, a mile 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 across the county; Pickford has one of its own. 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.
Pickford home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pickford$204,334
- 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.
- Pickford12
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Pickford address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pickford — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.