Rodney, Michigan.
Typical home $207,467 (+4.7% in a year). Big Rapids, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$566 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,393 +5%
- $198,075$207,467 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,899 +17%
- $176,568$207,467 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.
- Rodney$1,089
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Rodney, MI rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rodney, Mecosta County, Michigan
The Census does not count Rodney on its own, so the figures here are Mecosta County's. Half the county's households earn more than $60,951 a year and half less; 20% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 77% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Mecosta County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 3.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mecosta 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rodney is a small town in Mecosta County, in the lower peninsula of Michigan, where most homes are lived in by their owners and the typical resident is in middle age. Winters are colder than in most of the country and bring a heavy snowfall, while summers are warm and the area gets a good deal of rain across the year. A larger share of people live below the poverty line than across the country as a whole.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, or in restaurants, hotels, entertainment and shops. Unemployment has eased over the past year, though jobs across the county have dropped in the latest year counted, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country. Few residents work from home.
Things to do. White Pine Trail State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, and Townline Lake, a lake, is also a short drive off. Newaygo State Park, another protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 16,708households
- 40.0median age
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Mecosta County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mecosta County had 12,262 jobs in 2025, 3.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 57°. About 61 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Big Rapids Wtp weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mecosta County
- Ferris State UniversityUniversity or college1,491
- Corewell Health Big RapidsGeneral hospital326FTE
- Original Footwear ManufacturingFootwear, women's leather or vinyl upper with rubber or plastics soles, manufacturing320
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters319
- Big Rapids ProductsJob stampings, automotive, metal, manufacturing313
- MeijerRetail294
- Primo Brands - Mecosta FactorySpring waters, purifying and bottling288
- Big Rapids Public SchoolsSchool district275FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,295 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Mecosta 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 Mecosta County and the Big Rapids, MI metro.
Rodney home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rodney$207,467
- 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.
- Rodney10
Zip codes with a Rodney address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rodney — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.