Williamston, Michigan.
Typical home $325,915 (+2.6% in a year). Lansing-East Lansing, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$901 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,368 +3%
- $317,547$325,915 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,877 +24%
- $263,038$325,915 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.
- Williamston$1,711
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Williamston, MI rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Williamston, Ingham County, Michigan
Williamston is a city of 3,819 people in Ingham County. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Ingham County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ingham County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Williamston is a small city in Ingham County, and most homes here are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn warm, with July the warmest. A typical year brings a good amount of snow and a fair amount of rain and melted snow together.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, shops and manufacturing also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Williamston are Williamston Community Schools, Cencora and Bekum America. Commutes are fairly typical, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Lake Lansing is a short drive away, and so are Lake Lansing Park South and Lake Lansing Park North, which makes the lake and its parkland the closest place for a walk or an afternoon outdoors. A longer drive brings you to Potter Park Zoo and to the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, a museum of art.
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- 1,794households
- 9%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What people in Ingham County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ingham County had 155,298 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 36 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the East Lansing South weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Williamston
- Williamston Community SchoolsSchool district243FTE
- CencoraWholesale trade119
- Bekum AmericaBlow molding machinery for plastics manufacturing112
- SpartanNashSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores67
- Hutson INC of MI - WilliamstonTractors, farm and garden, merchant wholesalers44
- MC MoldsRectifying equipment, chemical, manufacturing40
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 382 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Williamston’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Ingham County and the Lansing-East Lansing, MI metro.
Williamston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Williamston$325,915
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Williamston listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Williamston30.97%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Williamston44
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Williamston15
Zip codes with a Williamston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Williamston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.