Stanton, Michigan.
Typical home $228,163 (+7.0% in a year). Grand Rapids-Kentwood, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$618 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,025 +7%
- $213,138$228,163 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $31,244 +16%
- $196,919$228,163 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.
- Stanton$1,198
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Stanton, MI rose 7.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Stanton, Montcalm County, Michigan
Stanton is a city of 1,348 people in Montcalm County. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stanton is a small city that serves as the county seat of Montcalm County, in central Michigan. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month and snowfall well above what much of the country sees, while summers turn warm in July. Incomes here run below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree compared with most of the country, and very few work from home.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Stanton are the County of Montcalm, Montcalm Area ISD and Montcalm Care Network. Unemployment across Montcalm County has eased a little from a year earlier, and the county has added a small number of jobs.
Things to do. The nearest outdoor choices are all a longer drive away. The North Country Trail is a long-distance trail for walking and hiking, and Cowden Lake is a lake for time on the water. Pine Creek is a river that suits a quiet day outdoors. With about as much rain and melted snow as many parts of the country, and plenty of snow in winter, the trail and waterways are best in the warmer months.
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- 478households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 31%below the poverty line
- 3%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, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Stanton
- County of MontcalmExecutive offices, federal, state, and local288
- Montcalm Area ISDSchool district225FTE
- Montcalm Care NetworkMental health physicians' offices136
- Montcalm County Road CommissionRepair, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway55
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 479 people in all. 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 weatherVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively 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 Stanton’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 Montcalm County and the Grand Rapids-Kentwood, MI metro.
Stanton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stanton$228,163
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Stanton 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Stanton18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Stanton7
Zip codes with a Stanton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stanton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.