Pinckney, Michigan.
Typical home $405,630 (+3.6% in a year). Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,130 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,041 +4%
- $391,590$405,630 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $76,848 +23%
- $328,782$405,630 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.
- Pinckney$2,129
- 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 Pinckney, MI rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pinckney, Livingston County, Michigan
Pinckney is a village of 2,415 people in Livingston County. Half its households earn more than $96,855 a year and half less, against $103,039 across Livingston County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Livingston County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pinckney is a small village in Livingston County, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners, a higher share than in many places. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and freezing highs, while July is pleasantly warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, wholesale and professional and business services also employing many. Some of the largest workplaces in the village are Wellbrige of Pinckney, Light of the World Academy and Trinity Health IHA Medical Group Primary Care Pinckney. A good number of people work from home, and commutes for those who travel to a job are fairly long.
Things to do. Pinckney State Recreation Area is a protected area in or beside town, and Zukey Lake is a short drive away for time by the water. Hudson Mills Metropark, also a short drive away, offers a park to walk and spend an afternoon in. For something indoors, the University of Michigan Museum of Art is a longer drive away.
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- 826households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Livingston County had 64,689 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 59°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hell weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pinckney
- Wellbrige of PinckneyGroup homes for the disabled with nursing care150
- Light of the World AcademySchool district33FTE
- Trinity Health IHA Medical Group Primary Care PinckneyGeneral medical and surgical hospitals28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 178 people in all. 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 moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pinckney’s census tracts, 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 Livingston County and the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
Pinckney home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pinckney$405,630
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Pinckney listings, and the typical home goes pending in 15 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Pinckney31.52%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Pinckney15
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Pinckney88
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Pinckney33
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Pinckney$428,467
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Pinckney99.70%
Zip codes with a Pinckney address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pinckney — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.