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The median home value in Garden City, MI is $207,556 as of 2026-07-31, up 2.7% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$207,556
Year-over-Year
+2.7%
Population
26,008
Garden City ranks #110 of 149 Michigan cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 20.9% below the state's city median of $262,319. It sits in Wayne County, where the county-wide median is $179,490.
Median household income in Garden City is $42,917, so the typical home value is about 4.8× annual household income. This is a simple price-to-income benchmark rather than a monthly payment estimate; it does not account for mortgage rates, down payments, taxes or insurance.
Household income comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 5-Year Estimates, table B19013 (how the affordability measure works).
Garden City police recorded a violent crime rate of 281 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 773 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Garden City, that value is $207,556. That's up 2.7% from a year earlier. It is about 20.9% below the typical Michigan city tracked here.
Homes in Garden City are more expensive than Wayne County as a whole, where the median is $179,490 — a difference of about 15.6%.
Median household income here is $42,917, so the typical home value is about 4.8× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Garden City police reported 281 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 26,008. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.