Rives Junction, Michigan.
Typical home $262,678 (+3.0% in a year). Jackson, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$742 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,544 +3%
- $255,135$262,678 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,075 +24%
- $211,603$262,678 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.
- Rives Junction$1,379
- 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 Rives Junction, MI rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rives Junction, Jackson County, Michigan
The Census does not count Rives Junction on its own, so the figures here are Jackson County's. Half the county's households earn more than $66,073 a year and half less; 12% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 75% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Jackson County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jackson County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rives Junction is a small community in Jackson County, in south-central Michigan. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the population is older than the country as a whole. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Across Jackson County, many people work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, or in shops and restaurants. Unemployment has eased over the past year, though the number of jobs dipped slightly in the most recent year. Relatively few adults hold a four-year degree, and commutes tend to be brief.
Things to do. Meridian-Baseline State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. The Michigan International Speedway, a race track, and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum are both a longer drive away.
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- 62,540households
- 41.5median age
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Jackson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jackson County had 55,466 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 61°. About 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jackson Reynolds Field weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jackson County
- W.a. Foote Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital3,087FTE
- EatonMfgr of aero fluid distribution comp866
- TAC ManufacturingOil filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing822
- One Energy PlazaCorporate offices818
- Michigan Automotive CompressorCompressors, motor vehicle air-conditioning, manufacturing670
- Jackson ISDSchool district654FTE
- Jackson Public SchoolsSchool district628FTE
- Consumers EnergyCorporate offices592
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 155 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 21,479 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Jackson County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Jackson County and the Jackson, MI metro.
Rives Junction home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rives Junction$262,678
- 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.
- Rives Junction11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Rives Junction4
Zip codes with a Rives Junction address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rives Junction — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.