Rosebush, Michigan.
Typical home $229,073 (+10.3% in a year). Mount Pleasant, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$636 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,334 +10%
- $207,739$229,073 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,099 +23%
- $185,974$229,073 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.
- Rosebush$1,202
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Rosebush, MI rose 10.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rosebush, Isabella County, Michigan
Rosebush is a village of 353 people in Isabella County. Unemployment in Isabella County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Isabella County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rosebush is a small village in Isabella County, Michigan, and one of the smaller places a reader is likely to look up. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying close to freezing, while July is warm. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than is typical, and more households live below the poverty line than across the county as a whole. Typical home values are modest, though they sit well above what the county's incomes might suggest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, shops, and manufacturing. A smaller group works from home. Across Isabella County, the largest workplaces include Central Michigan University, the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe's casino hotels, and the Mt. Pleasant City School District. Unemployment across the county has eased a little compared with a year earlier, and the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. Kelly/Shorts Stadium is a stadium a short drive away, and the Broadway Theatre is a theatre also a short drive away. For time outdoors, Budd Lake is a lake a longer drive away, and the Chippewa River is a river a longer drive away. Wilson State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive from the village.
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- 14%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 8%work from home
What people in Isabella County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Isabella County had 26,856 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 61°. About 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Central Michigan Univ weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Isabella County
- Central Michigan UniversityUniversity or college2,273
- Saginaw Chippewa Indian TribeCasino hotels1,995
- Mears GroupPipeline, gas and oil, construction1,923
- DelfieldRefrigeration equipment, industrial and commercial-type, manufacturing545
- Mt. Pleasant City School DistrictSchool district542FTE
- J Ranck ElectricElectrical contractors522
- Bandit Industries, Inc. - MainChippers, portable, commercial, manufacturing467
- MorbarkConstruction machinery manufacturing354
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 81 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 11,399 people in all across the county; Rosebush has one of its own. Colleges come 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Rosebush’s census tracts, 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 Isabella County and the Mount Pleasant, MI metro.
Rosebush home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rosebush$229,073
- 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.
- Rosebush4
Zip codes with a Rosebush address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rosebush — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.