A typical Rothbury home is worth about $215,000
Up 5.5% in a year, 19% below the Michigan typical home.
What kind of housing town is Rothbury?
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What it takes to buy in Rothbury
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That covers a typical Rothbury home, with $56K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $980 a month here, $370 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Michigan typical property tax (1.25% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
Up 26.6% in five years
About the same pace as Michigan (24.1%).
Show as a table
| January | Rothbury | Michigan |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $107,000 | $144,000 |
| 2018 | $121,000 | $155,000 |
| 2019 | $122,000 | $165,000 |
| 2020 | $139,000 | $175,000 |
| 2021 | $153,000 | $194,000 |
| 2022 | $176,000 | $217,000 |
| 2023 | $191,000 | $230,000 |
| 2024 | $194,000 | $241,000 |
| 2025 | $205,000 | $253,000 |
| 2026 | $213,000 | $262,000 |
| August 2026 | $215,000 | $266,000 |
A typical Rothbury home worth $106K in September 2016 is worth about $215K today.
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
A two-bedroom rents for about $980
Renters already here pay a median of $1,089.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Oceana County, MI): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
87% of Rothbury households own their home
Half of Rothbury’s homes were built before 1971.
Michigan: 73% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. 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.