Housing in Detour

A typical Detour home is worth roughly $226,000

Typical home value

$226K

MI $266K

Estimate

2-bedroom rent

$1,050

a month, utilities in · HUD

Median tax bill

$2,000

MI $2,904

What kind of housing town is Detour?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

A second-home town51% of homes are seasonal or vacation homes.A town of owners95% of households own their home.Your money goes further15% below the Michigan typical home.

★ What stands out · The homes

95% of Detour households own their home

Half of Detour’s homes were built before 1977.

Owners and renters

Own 95%Rent 5%

Michigan: 73% own.

1977

typical home built · MI 1972

$2,000

median property tax bill · MI $2,904

0.88%

of a home’s value, a year in tax · MI 1.25%

51%

of homes are seasonal or vacation homes

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

Affordability

A typical home costs 4.1 years of income

More than across Michigan (3.7 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about

$215,000

Typical Detour home $226K

That’s $12K short of a typical Detour home.

The typical home, each month

$1,350

Loan $1,120Tax $170Insurance $70

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,050 a month here, $300 less than owning.

Where your budget reaches nearby

Raber$113K Drummond$273K Clark$213K

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Detour’s typical property tax (0.88% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,050

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$740

1 bedroom$810

2 bedrooms$1,050

3 bedrooms$1,260

4 bedrooms$1,410

of households rent · MI 27%

renter households

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Chippewa County, MI): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

Next door

Detour vs. its neighbors

Detour is the 2nd priciest of 4 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Drummond$273K Detour$226K Clark$213K Raber$113K

Compare more

Town	Typical value	1-yr change	2-bed rent	New homes 2025	Median income
Detour	$226K*	—	$1,050	—	$55,463
Raber	$113K*	—	$1,060	—	$48,542
Drummond	$273K*	—	$1,060	—	$67,232
Clark	$213K*	—	$1,010	13	$70,859

Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.