Sidney, Michigan.
Typical home $233,554 (+9.5% in a year). Grand Rapids-Kentwood, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$607 (+98%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,338 +10%
- $213,216$233,554 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,821 +12%
- $207,734$233,554 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.
- Sidney$1,226
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 30 years.
Typical home values in Sidney, MI rose 9.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sidney, Montcalm County, Michigan
Sidney is a township of 2,538 people in Montcalm County. Half its households earn more than $60,050 a year and half less, against $67,344 across Montcalm County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Montcalm County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sidney is a rural township in Montcalm County, Michigan. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run below the county's. Winters are cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, schools, hospitals and social care, shops, and the building trades. Among the larger workplaces in Sidney are Central Montcalm Public Schools, Montcalm Community College and Sheridan Community Hospital. Many people commute a fair way to work, and only a small share work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, the Rogue River and the Flat River are both rivers within reach, though each is a longer drive away. Cowden Lake is another lake a longer drive off. Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, the best known of the nearby places, is a botanical garden, also a longer drive away.
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- 1,029households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Montcalm County had 16,387 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 56°. About 73 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Greenville Nne weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sidney
- Central Montcalm Public SchoolsSchool district182FTE
- Montcalm Community CollegeTwo-year college166
- Sheridan Community HospitalCritical access hospital61FTE
- Big L LumberHome centers, building materials31
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 31 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Montcalm 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 Montcalm County and the Grand Rapids-Kentwood, MI metro.
Sidney home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sidney$233,554
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Sidney address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sidney — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.