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The median home value in Sterling Heights, MI is $315,750 as of 2026-06-30, up 2.42% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$315,750
Year-over-Year
+2.42%
Population
133,058
Sterling Heights ranks #49 of 149 Michigan cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 20.4% above the state's city median of $262,333. It sits in Macomb County, where the county-wide median is $274,889.
Sterling Heights police recorded a violent crime rate of 229 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 1,042 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
The median home value in Sterling Heights is $315,750. That's up 2.42% from a year earlier. That is about 20.4% above the typical county in Michigan.
Homes in Sterling Heights are more expensive than Macomb County as a whole, where the median is $274,889 — a difference of about 14.9%.
Sterling Heights police reported 229 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 133,058. 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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