Woodhaven, Michigan.
Typical home $266,387 (+2.9% in a year). Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$733 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,520 +3%
- $258,867$266,387 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,069 +23%
- $216,318$266,387 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.
- Woodhaven$1,398
- 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 Woodhaven, MI rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Woodhaven, Wayne County, Michigan
Woodhaven is a city of 12,941 people in Wayne County. Half its households earn more than $78,648 a year and half less, against $60,539 across Wayne County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Wayne County was 6.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Woodhaven is a small city in Wayne County, south of Detroit. Residents are older than in many places, and most households own the home they live in. Incomes run well above the county's, and typical home values sit in the middle of the range for the region. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and professional and business services also employing a good number. The largest workplaces in Woodhaven include the Woodhaven-Brownstown School District, Ford Motor Company and the Gibraltar School District. Across Wayne County, jobs have slipped slightly and unemployment is higher than it was a year ago. Most people commute a moderate distance, and a small share work from home.
Things to do. The Detroit River and the Huron River are both a short drive away, and are the closest places for time near the water. A longer drive leads to Detroit, where the Detroit Institute of Arts is one of the best known art museums in the region. Also a longer drive away, The Henry Ford is a museum of American industry and invention.
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- 5,289households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wayne County had 721,389 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 45 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Detroit Metro Airport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Woodhaven
- Woodhaven-Brownstown School DistrictSchool district663FTE
- Ford Motor CompanyManufacturing of automotive sheet metal parts400
- Gibraltar School DistrictSchool district386FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters316
- MeijerRetail244
- TargetDiscount department stores203
- Symphony ApplewoodSkilled nursing facilities161
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter140
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,993 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
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of WoodhavenRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Woodhaven’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 Wayne County and the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro.
Woodhaven home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Woodhaven$266,387
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Woodhaven listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Woodhaven24.07%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Woodhaven30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Woodhaven11
Zip codes with a Woodhaven address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Woodhaven — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.