Skanee, Michigan.
Typical home $212,142 (+14.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$650 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $26,977 +15%
- $185,165$212,142 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $63,277 +43%
- $148,865$212,142 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.
- Skanee$1,113
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Skanee, MI rose 14.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Skanee, Baraga County, Michigan
Skanee, in Baraga County, had 102 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Baraga County was 6.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Baraga County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Skanee is a small community in Baraga County, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where most people know their neighbors and the pace of life is unhurried. It lies close to the shore of Lake Superior, so the weather and the scenery are shaped by the big lake. Its numbers are small enough that the town feels like a place where people look out for one another.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Manufacturing and local shops also provide work, though the county's job numbers have dipped slightly in recent years. Work here tends to be close to home, with fewer options than in larger towns.
Things to do. The Huron River is a short drive away and makes a pleasant outing for anyone who likes water and quiet woods. Lake Independence and the A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum are a longer drive away, the lake for a day on the water and the museum for a look at rocks and minerals. Winters are long and cold and summers are mild and warm, so the best months for these trips are the warmer ones.
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- 3%below the poverty line
What people in Baraga County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Baraga County had 2,965 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 51°. About 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jacobsville weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Baraga County
- Baraga Correctional FacilityCorrectional institutions204
- Certainteed ceilingsPapier-mache statuary and related art goods manufacturing160
- Applied Solutions Group ASG Pettibone Main100
- Baraga County Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital78FTE
- L'Anse Area SchoolsSchool district75FTE
- Baraga Area SchoolsSchool district63FTE
- Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community CollegeTwo-year college55
- Laser NorthCoal chutes, sheet metal, manufacturing53
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 669 people in all across the county; Skanee has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively 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 Skanee’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 Baraga County.
Skanee home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Skanee$212,142
- 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.
- Skanee9
Zip codes with a Skanee address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Skanee — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.