Saint Johns, Michigan.
Typical home $292,948 (+5.7% in a year). Lansing-East Lansing, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$827 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,699 +6%
- $277,249$292,948 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $61,708 +27%
- $231,241$292,948 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 Johns$1,538
- 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 Saint Johns, MI rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Saint Johns, Clinton County, Michigan
Saint Johns is a city of 7,698 people in Clinton County. Half its households earn more than $68,728 a year and half less, against $88,210 across Clinton County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Clinton County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 Johns is a small city and the seat of Clinton County, Michigan. The median age here is on the older side, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values sit in the middle range. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days; the year's rain and melted snow adds up to a fairly typical Midwest total.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing a good share. Among the largest workplaces in Saint Johns are St. Johns Public Schools, UM Health-Sparrow Clinton Hospital and Mahle Engine Components. The typical commute is short, and some people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Sleepy Hollow State Park, a protected area, and Lake Ovid, a reservoir, are both a short drive away. Farther afield, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum is a longer drive away, as is Potter Park Zoo.
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- 3,263households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clinton County had 18,741 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Saint Johns weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Saint Johns
- The Martin-Brower Company414
- St. Johns Public SchoolsSchool district319FTE
- UM Health-sparrow Clinton HospitalCritical access hospital233FTE
- Mahle Engine ComponentsGasoline engine parts, mechanical, automotive and truck, manufacturing181
- Clinton Area Care CenterSkilled nursing facilities171
- Cedar Creek HospitalPsychiatric hospital119FTE
- Clinton Area Transit SystemPublic transportation commissions, nonoperating47
- City of St. Johns44
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,133 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively 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 Saint Johns’ 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 Clinton County and the Lansing-East Lansing, MI metro.
Saint Johns home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Saint Johns$292,948
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Saint Johns 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 Johns17.07%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Saint Johns46
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Saint Johns21
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Saint Johns$260,066
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Saint Johns address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Saint Johns — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.