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The median home value in Ionia, MI is $234,569 as of 2026-07-31, up 5.57% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$234,569
Year-over-Year
+5.57%
Population
11,900
Ionia ranks #98 of 149 Michigan cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 10.6% below the state's city median of $262,319. It sits in Ionia County, where the county-wide median is $269,153.
Median household income in Ionia is $63,978, so the typical home value is about 3.7× 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).
Ionia police recorded a violent crime rate of 185 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 555 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 Ionia, that value is $234,569. That's up 5.57% from a year earlier. It is about 10.6% below the typical Michigan city tracked here.
Homes in Ionia are cheaper than Ionia County as a whole, where the median is $269,153 — a difference of about 12.8%.
Median household income here is $63,978, so the typical home value is about 3.7× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Ionia police reported 185 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 11,900. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.
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