Westphalia, Michigan.
Typical home $350,246 (+7.8% in a year). Lansing-East Lansing, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,059 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $25,383 +8%
- $324,863$350,246 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $94,968 +37%
- $255,278$350,246 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.
- Westphalia$1,838
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Westphalia, MI rose 7.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Westphalia, Clinton County, Michigan
Westphalia is a village of 924 people in Clinton County. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Clinton County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in government, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Westphalia is a small village in Clinton County, Michigan, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Incomes here are below the county's, and the typical home is worth a good deal, in a place where people tend to stay put. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, peaking in July. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in government, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in banks, insurance and property. Across Clinton County, some of the largest workplaces are WestRock CP, Invio Automation and DeWitt Public Schools. Commutes are fairly long, and quite a few people work from home.
Things to do. The Looking Glass River is a short drive away and suits time by the water. Farther afield, Sleepy Hollow State Park is a protected area for walking and being outdoors, and the Potter Park Zoo is a longer drive for a family day out. The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum is also a longer drive away.
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- 385households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 26%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clinton County had 18,741 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Saint Johns weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clinton County
- WestRock CPPrinting/packaging430
- The Martin-Brower Company414
- Invio AutomationJigs and fixtures for use with machine tools manufacturing373
- Granger Waste ServicesWaste collection services, nonhazardous solid347
- DeWitt Public SchoolsSchool district321FTE
- St. Johns Public SchoolsSchool district319FTE
- MeijerRetail254
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters251
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 69 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,845 people in all across the county; Westphalia has one of its own. 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively 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 Westphalia’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 Clinton County and the Lansing-East Lansing, MI metro.
Westphalia home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Westphalia$350,246
- 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 Westphalia address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Westphalia — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.