Whittemore, Michigan.
Typical home $140,520 (+2.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$438 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,872 +3%
- $136,648$140,520 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,684 +22%
- $114,837$140,520 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.
- Whittemore$738
- 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 Whittemore, MI rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Whittemore, Iosco County, Michigan
Whittemore is a city of 414 people in Iosco County. Half its households earn more than $33,214 a year and half less, against $50,066 across Iosco County; 23% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Iosco County was 6.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Iosco County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Whittemore is a very small city in Iosco County, in northeastern Michigan. Incomes here run well below the county's, and more households than across the county live below the poverty line. Homes are modestly priced, and very few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying below freezing, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels close behind. Across Iosco County, the largest workplaces include Ascension St. Joseph Hospital, Walmart and Oscoda Area Schools. Unemployment across the county is unchanged from a year earlier, and the county had slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before. Commutes are on the long side, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The nearest outdoor places are all a longer drive away, and most are on or near the water. Tawas Point State Park is a protected shoreline area, and Tawas Lake is a lake close to it. For woods and rivers, Huron National Forest is a protected area and the Rifle River runs through the same part of the state.
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- 198households
- 5%of adults have a degree
- 23%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Iosco County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Iosco County had 7,624 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 54°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hale 5SSW #2 weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Iosco County
- 10 Kalitta AIRAircraft maintenance1,366
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters316
- Plastic Trim InternationalMotor vehicle metal parts stamping304
- Cooper Standard-Oscoda PlantFuel injection systems and parts, automotive and truck gasoline engine, manufacturing228
- Ascension St. Joseph HospitalGeneral hospital187FTE
- Oscoda Area SchoolsSchool district165FTE
- Tawas Area SchoolsSchool district137FTE
- Iosco Medical Care FacilityNursing homes120
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 29 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,425 people in all across the county; Whittemore has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Whittemore’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 Iosco County.
Whittemore home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Whittemore$140,520
- 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.
- Whittemore6
Zip codes with a Whittemore address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Whittemore — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.