Saint Helen, Michigan.
Typical home $129,899 (+1.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$447 (+190%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,196 +2%
- $127,703$129,899 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,124 +51%
- $85,775$129,899 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.
- Saint Helen$682
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in Saint Helen, MI rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Saint Helen, Roscommon County, Michigan
Saint Helen, in Roscommon County, had 2,735 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $44,871 a year and half less, against $55,246 across Roscommon County. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Roscommon County was 6.4% in August 2026, and the county had 5.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Saint Helen is a small community in Roscommon County, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the county's, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm in July without turning hot. Rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Residents mostly work in manufacturing, shops, schools, hospitals and social care, and restaurants and hotels. Across Roscommon County, the largest workplaces include Walmart, Lear Corporation's Roscommon plant and Houghton Lake Community Schools. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. A typical commute is fairly long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Lake St. Helen sits in or beside town, and Backus Creek State Game Area is a short drive away. Houghton Lake is a longer drive, as is Higgins Lake, where South Higgins Lake State Park offers a protected shoreline setting. With this much lake country and public land nearby, time outdoors is a natural part of life here.
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- 1,345households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 30 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Roscommon County had 6,103 jobs in 2025, 5.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 56°. About 53 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the West Branch 3SE weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Roscommon County
- Taco Bell KFCFast food365
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters310
- Taco Bell KFCFast food293
- Lear Corporation - RoscommonAutomotive supplier211
- Houghton Lake Community SchoolsSchool district198FTE
- Charlton Heston AcademySchool district152FTE
- C.o.o.r. ISDSchool district133FTE
- Roscommon Area Public SchoolsSchool district123FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,532 people in all across the county; Saint Helen has one 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Saint Helen’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 Roscommon County.
Saint Helen home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Saint Helen$129,899
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Saint Helen listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Saint Helen23.05%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Saint Helen68
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Saint Helen17
Zip codes with a Saint Helen address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Saint Helen — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.