Ruth, Michigan.
Typical home $206,756 (+3.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$379 (+54%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $7,119 +4%
- $199,637$206,756 since Sep 2025
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.
- Ruth$1,085
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Ruth, MI rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ruth, Huron County, Michigan
The Census does not count Ruth on its own, so the figures here are Huron County's. Half the county's households earn more than $58,870 a year and half less; 13% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 82% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Huron County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Huron 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ruth is a small community in Huron County, in the Thumb region of Michigan, where the land runs out toward the shore of Lake Huron. Winters are cold and snowy, and the summers are warm, with a good deal of rain across the year. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and the county's typical home value is modest compared with many parts of the country.
Work. Schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, shops, and farming, forestry and mining are the main kinds of work people do across Huron County. Unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier, and the county has added a few more jobs. Fewer people here work from home than in many places, and the county's residents are older on the whole, with fewer adults holding a four-year degree than across the country.
Things to do. White River is a river a short drive away, and the Harbor Beach Community House, a theatre, is also a short drive off. Port Crescent State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away and suits anyone who enjoys open land and the water.
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- 14,150households
- 49.5median age
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Huron County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Huron County had 11,350 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 60°. About 47 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Harbor Beach Sse weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Huron County
- Rathmourne DairyDairy cattle farming403
- Autokiniton ElktonMotor vehicle metal stampings manufacturing397
- Michigan Sugar CompanyGranulated beet sugar manufacturing292
- Scheurer HospitalCritical access hospital286FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters260
- Valley EnterprisesMotor vehicle interior systems manufacturing259
- Huron CastingFoundries, steel242
- Blue Diamond Steel CastingFoundries, iron228
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 35 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,774 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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 weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Huron 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 Huron County.
Ruth home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ruth$206,756
- 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.
Zip codes with a Ruth address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ruth — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.