Pigeon, Michigan.
Typical home $256,863 (+6.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$746 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,525 +6%
- $242,338$256,863 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $66,303 +35%
- $190,560$256,863 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.
- Pigeon$1,348
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Pigeon, MI rose 6.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pigeon, Huron County, Michigan
Pigeon is a village of 1,222 people in Huron County. 61% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. Unemployment in Huron County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pigeon is a small village in Huron County, in Michigan's Thumb. Its residents are older than in many American communities, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow fall through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing people. Among the largest workplaces in Pigeon are Scheurer Hospital, Huron Casting and Axis Machining. Commutes are short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The Pigeon River, a river a short drive away, is the closest place to get outdoors. Farther afield, Port Crescent State Park and Albert E. Sleeper State Park are protected areas a longer drive away, and Sanilac Petroglyphs Historic State Park, also a longer drive away, is an archaeological site.
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- 519households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 13 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Huron County had 11,350 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more 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 79° and lows near 57°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Filion 5NNW weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pigeon
- Scheurer HospitalCritical access hospital286FTE
- Huron CastingFoundries, steel242
- Axis MachiningMachine shops96
- Cooperative Elevator Co. Pigeon Office and plantsGrain elevators merchant wholesalers grain83
- Active Feed CompanyAnimal feed mills manufacturing63
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,004 people in all. Hospitals come 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 wavesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pigeon’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Huron County.
Pigeon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pigeon$256,863
- 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.
- Pigeon16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Pigeon5
Zip codes with a Pigeon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pigeon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.