Vernon, Michigan.
Typical home $166,437 (-1.6% in a year). Lansing-East Lansing, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$478 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,653 -2%
- $169,090$166,437 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $33,512 +25%
- $132,925$166,437 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.
- Vernon$874
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Vernon, MI fell 1.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Vernon, Shiawassee County, Michigan
Vernon is a village of 738 people in Shiawassee County. Half its households earn more than $69,625 a year and half less, against $67,404 across Shiawassee County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 95% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 5% are rented. Unemployment in Shiawassee County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Vernon is a small village in Shiawassee County, home to very few people, and nearly everyone lives in a house they own. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and homes are modestly priced. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is typical, and a good number of households live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and freezing nights, while July brings warm days, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, the building trades and manufacturing. Across Shiawassee County, some of the largest workplaces are Memorial Healthcare, Baker College and Owosso Public Schools. The typical commute is long, which suggests many people travel some distance for work, and only a small number work from home. Unemployment across the county has eased a little from a year ago, though the number of jobs there slipped slightly last year.
Things to do. The Maple River runs in or beside town, a quiet spot for a walk along the water. A longer drive brings you to the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and the Flint Institute of Arts is another museum a longer drive away. Sleepy Hollow State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive from the village.
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- 275households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Shiawassee County had 15,490 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Durand Wwtp weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Shiawassee County
- Memorial HealthcareGeneral hospital1,113FTE
- Baker CollegeUniversity or college926
- Owosso Public SchoolsSchool district368FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters328
- Pleasant View Shiawassee County Medical Care FacilitySkilled nursing facilities274
- Shiawassee Regional ESDSchool district264FTE
- Corunna Public SchoolsSchool district232FTE
- MeijerRetail217
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 42 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,860 people in all across the county; Vernon has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Vernon’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 Shiawassee County and the Lansing-East Lansing, MI metro.
Vernon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Vernon$166,437
- 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.
Zip codes with a Vernon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Vernon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.