Turner, Michigan.
Typical home $166,891 (+4.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$533 (+155%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,245 +5%
- $159,645$166,891 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $39,897 +31%
- $126,994$166,891 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.
- Turner$876
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Turner, MI rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Turner, Arenac County, Michigan
Turner is a village of 121 people in Arenac County. Unemployment in Arenac County was 6.1% in August 2026, and the county had 3.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Arenac County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Turner is a very small village in Arenac County, in Michigan's Lower Peninsula, with only a few people living there. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and temperatures that stay below freezing through the day, while summers are warm. Rain and melted snow fall throughout the year, so the seasons are clearly marked. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and typical home values are modest.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Arenac County, the largest workplaces include the Standish-Sterling Community Schools, the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe's casino hotels, and the Magline hand truck factory. Unemployment in the county is slightly lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before, and few people in Turner work from home.
Things to do. The Au Gres River is a short drive away and is the nearest place for time by the water. Farther afield, Tawas Point State Park is a protected shoreline area, and Au Sable State Forest offers a large stretch of woods to explore. Each of these is a longer drive from the village.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 6%work from home
What people in Arenac County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Arenac County had 3,940 jobs in 2025, 3.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 58°. About 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Standish 4NE weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Arenac County
- ForwardConvenience stores with gasoline stations770
- Saginaw Chippewa Indian TribeCasino hotels439
- Standish-Sterling Community SchoolsSchool district209FTE
- PRA VantageAwnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing153
- MaglineHand trucks manufacturing128
- Arenac CastingAlloy steel castings, unfinished, manufacturing80
- Ascension Standish HospitalCritical access hospital71FTE
- Medilodge of SterlingSkilled nursing facilities68
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,947 people in all across the county; Turner has none of its own. 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively 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 Turner’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 Arenac County.
Turner home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Turner$166,891
- 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 Turner address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Turner — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.