Vassar, Michigan.
Typical home $198,374 (+5.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$594 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,543 +5%
- $188,831$198,374 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,135 +23%
- $161,239$198,374 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.
- Vassar$1,041
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Vassar, MI rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Vassar, Tuscola County, Michigan
Vassar is a city of 2,727 people in Tuscola County. Half its households earn more than $59,444 a year and half less, against $63,811 across Tuscola County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Tuscola County was 5.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Vassar is a small city in Tuscola County, Michigan, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a good number of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn warm in July, and precipitation is moderate through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and the building trades also well represented. Among the largest workplaces in Vassar are Vassar Public Schools, Astech, which makes alloy steel castings, and Decker Equipment. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one, so many travel some distance for their jobs.
Things to do. Murphy Lake is a short drive away and is the closest spot for time by the water. Farther out, the Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area, and the Cass River is among the rivers in the region. Those who enjoy museums can make a longer drive to the Flint Institute of Arts.
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- 1,106households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tuscola County had 12,153 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 57°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Vassar weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Vassar
- Vassar Public SchoolsSchool district131FTE
- AstechAlloy steel castings, unfinished, manufacturing33
- Decker EquipmentVariety stores25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 58 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Vassar’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Tuscola County.
Vassar home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Vassar$198,374
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Vassar 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.
- Vassar23.70%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Vassar35
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Vassar15
Zip codes with a Vassar address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Vassar — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.