Richland, Michigan.
Typical home $379,587 (+3.2% in a year). Kalamazoo-Portage, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,025 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,704 +3%
- $367,883$379,587 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,656 +19%
- $318,931$379,587 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.
- Richland$1,992
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Richland, MI rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Richland, Kalamazoo County, Michigan
Richland is a village of 946 people in Kalamazoo County. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Kalamazoo County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Kalamazoo County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Richland is a small village in Kalamazoo County, a place where neighbors tend to know one another. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and the people who live here are on the younger side for a community of its size. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying right around freezing, while summers turn warm, with July the warmest, and rain and melted snow arrive in fair amounts through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and professional and business services also employing many. The biggest workplaces across Kalamazoo County include Bronson Methodist Hospital, Western Michigan University and Pfizer's Portage Road site. The typical commute is a moderate one, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Gull Lake is a short drive away and is the nearest of several lakes in the area. Fort Custer Recreation Area, a protected area also a short drive off, offers open space for walking and time outdoors. The Gilmore Car Museum, likewise close by, is a museum for anyone who enjoys old automobiles.
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- 54%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What people in Kalamazoo County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kalamazoo County had 122,119 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 62°. About 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Gull Lake Biological Station weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kalamazoo County
- Stryker Employer CompanyHospital beds manufacturing4,988
- Bronson Methodist HospitalGeneral hospital4,069FTE
- Pfizer Kalamazoo - Portage Road (2)Pharmaceutical preparations manufacturing3,035
- Western Michigan UniversityUniversity or college2,794
- Ascension Borgess HospitalGeneral hospital1,647FTE
- Kalamazoo Public SchoolsSchool district1,555FTE
- TargetDiscount department stores1,019
- Kalamazoo Valley Community CollegeTwo-year college1,015
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 326 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 52,486 people in all across the county; Richland 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
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Richland’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 Kalamazoo County and the Kalamazoo-Portage, MI metro.
Richland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Richland$379,587
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Richland listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Richland31.09%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Richland35
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Richland12
Zip codes with a Richland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Richland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.