Powers, Michigan.
Typical home $180,726 (+9.4% in a year). Marinette, WI-MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$280 (+42%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $15,527 +9%
- $165,199$180,726 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.
- Powers$949
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Powers, MI rose 9.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Powers, Menominee County, Michigan
Powers is a village of 381 people in Menominee County. Unemployment in Menominee County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Menominee County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Powers is a small village in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, home to very few people, and the sort of place where residents tend to know one another. Winters are cold and long, with heavy snowfall, and summers are warm without being hot. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than is typical, and the typical home is modestly priced.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants and hotels. Across Menominee County, some of the largest workplaces are Caterpillar Fluid Transfer Solutions in Menominee, which makes hose assemblies, Menominee Area Public Schools, and Enstrom Helicopter, an aircraft maker. Very few people work from home, and the county has lost a small share of its jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The IXL Historical Museum is a short drive away. For time outdoors, Wells State Park is a protected area a longer drive off, and the Cedar River is another longer drive for anyone who likes to be near moving water. The area's many rivers and lakes make it well suited to quiet days outside.
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- 128households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 1%work from home
What people in Menominee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Menominee County had 7,115 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 55°. About 43 inches of snow and 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cornell 5SE weather station, 20 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Menominee County
- Caterpillar Fluid Transfer Solutions - MenomineeFluid power hose assemblies manufacturing439
- L.E. Jones CompanyGasoline engine parts, mechanical, automotive and truck, manufacturing377
- Menominee Area Public SchoolsSchool district199FTE
- Enstrom HelicopterAircraft manufacturing157
- Advanced Blending SolutionsPlastics working machinery manufacturing113
- Jack's Fresh Market107
- Fibrek Recycling U.SPulp manufacturing without making paper100
- Wendricks TrussTrusses, wood roof or floor, manufacturing82
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 24 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,091 people in all across the county; Powers has one of its own. 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Powers’ 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 Menominee County and the Marinette, WI-MI metro.
Powers home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Powers$180,726
- 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 Powers address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Powers — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.