Wolverine, Michigan.
Typical home $201,638 (+5.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$533 (+101%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,937 +5%
- $191,701$201,638 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $22,463 +13%
- $179,175$201,638 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.
- Wolverine$1,058
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 29 years.
Typical home values in Wolverine, MI rose 5.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wolverine, Cheboygan County, Michigan
Wolverine is a village of 309 people in Cheboygan County. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. Unemployment in Cheboygan County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cheboygan County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wolverine is a very small village in Cheboygan County, in northern Michigan, and nearly every home is lived in by its owner. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than is typical across the country. Winters are long, cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July without being hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Cheboygan County, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, Thunder Bay Community Health Service and Cheboygan Area Schools. A typical commute is a long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Burt Lake State Park, a protected area on the shore of Burt Lake, is a short drive away. Thumb Lake is also a short drive, and the Little Pigeon River is close by for anyone who likes to be near moving water. Burt Lake itself is a longer drive.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 30 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Cheboygan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cheboygan County had 6,125 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 51°. About 84 inches of snow and 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Vanderbilt 11ENE weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cheboygan County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters325
- Cheboygan Area SchoolsSchool district199FTE
- Cheb-Otsego-Presque Isle ESDSchool district123FTE
- TF-RFabricated pipe and pipe fittings made from purchased pipe120
- Inland Lakes SchoolsSchool district90FTE
- Ken's Village MarketSupermarkets82
- MediLodge of CheboyganNursing homes72
- Cheboygan County Road CommissionConstruction management, highway, road, street and bridge44
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 831 people in all across the county; Wolverine 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wolverine’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 Cheboygan County.
Wolverine home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wolverine$201,638
- 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.
- Wolverine12
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Wolverine address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wolverine — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.