Wyoming, Michigan.
Typical home $290,982 (+3.7% in a year), asking rent $1,555 (+3.5%). Grand Rapids-Kentwood, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$894 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,303 +4%
- $280,680$290,982 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $65,664 +29%
- $225,318$290,982 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.
- Wyoming$1,527
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Wyoming, MI rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Wyoming, MI rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Wyoming runs $553/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $594 in Oct 2023.
That is $2,108 a month against $1,555 rent: a $1,527 mortgage payment, plus $269 property tax and $312 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Wyoming
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,108
- Renting$1,555
- Mortgage only$1,527
Property tax · $269/mo 1.11% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Kent County, MI
Insurance & upkeep · $312/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Wyoming, Kent County, Michigan
Wyoming is a city of 76,501 people in Kent County. Half its households earn more than $73,677 a year and half less, against $82,631 across Kent County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Wyoming was 4.2% in August 2026, and Kent County had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, 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. Wyoming is a city beside Grand Rapids in Kent County, home to a younger population than is typical across the country. Incomes run below the county's, and most homes are lived in by their owners, with a good number of renters as well. Winters are cold and snowy, and summers are warm.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in the city are Metropolitan Hospital, Gordon Food Service and UPS. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is common across the county, and most people commute a fairly short way to work.
Things to do. A short drive away, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park is a botanical garden with outdoor art, and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum is a museum on the life and career of the former president. John Ball Zoo is also a short drive away. Fisk Lake and Reeds Lake, both nearby, are good places to spend time by the water.
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- 29,417households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kent County had 417,408 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 75 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the East Grand Rapids weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wyoming
- Metropolitan HospitalGeneral hospital2,643FTE
- Gordon Food Service, Inc. MI-WYOMI08Managing offices1,670
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services1,362
- HN Developmental Community SvsJob training and related services792
- General Motors Components HoldingsInternal combustion engines, automotive and truck gasoline, manufacturing787
- ABC TechnologiesAwnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing680
- Consumers EnergyDistribution of electric power525
- Weller Truck PartsTransmissions and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing516
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 176 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 22,747 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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 in parts of WyomingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of WyomingRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Wyoming’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Kent County and the Grand Rapids-Kentwood, MI metro.
Wyoming home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wyoming$290,982
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Wyoming listings, and the typical home goes pending in 9 days — 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.
- Wyoming29.15%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Wyoming9
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wyoming120
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wyoming69
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Wyoming$294,365
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Wyoming102.73%
Zip codes with a Wyoming address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wyoming — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Wyoming
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49509 | Wyoming | 28,152 | $1,442 | $262,026 |
| 49519 | Wyoming | 27,965 | $1,390 | $295,796 |