Rothbury, Michigan.
Typical home $216,526 (+4.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$624 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,021 +5%
- $206,504$216,526 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,038 +26%
- $172,487$216,526 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.
- Rothbury$1,136
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Rothbury, MI rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rothbury, Oceana County, Michigan
Rothbury is a village of 462 people in Oceana County. Half its households earn more than $49,063 a year and half less, against $62,417 across Oceana County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Oceana County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Oceana County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rothbury is a very small village in Oceana County, Michigan, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Residents are somewhat older than the typical American, and a four-year degree is less common here than across the country. Incomes run below the county's, and winters are cold and long, with a great deal of snow, while summers are pleasantly warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in shops, with some in farming and forestry. Across Oceana County, some of the largest employers are fruit and vegetable processors such as Peterson Farms and Michigan Freeze Pack, along with the Hart Public School District. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the county has added a small number of jobs. Commutes are fairly short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Hart-Montague Trail State Park, a protected area, is in or beside town. A short drive away are the White River and Michigan Heritage Park, a museum. Michigan's Adventure, an amusement park, is a longer drive away.
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- 15%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Oceana County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Oceana County had 6,510 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 58°. About 69 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Montague Northwest weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Oceana County
- Peterson FarmsFrozen fruit and vegetable processing452
- Michigan Freeze PackVegetables, frozen, manufacturing417
- OPC Arbre FarmsFrozen fruit and vegetable processing410
- Hart Public School DistrictSchool district270FTE
- Gray & CompanyCanning fruits and vegetables248
- Oceana County Medical Care FacilityNursing homes240
- Peterson Farms FreshFruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers239
- Shelby Public SchoolsSchool district196FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 24 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,416 people in all across the county; Rothbury has two 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
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Rothbury’s 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 Oceana County.
Rothbury home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rothbury$216,526
- 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.
- Rothbury4
Zip codes with a Rothbury address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rothbury — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.