Cheboygan vs Tower

A side-by-side comparison of Cheboygan and Tower: population, income, housing, and more.

Cheboygan and Tower are places in Michigan. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Cheboygan has the higher population (4,801 vs 271 in Tower). Tower has the higher median household income ($42,167 vs $41,338 in Cheboygan). Cheboygan has the higher median home value ($118,700 vs $91,500 in Tower).

Population, income & housing

	Cheboygan	Tower
Population	4,801	271
Median age	42.1 yrs	55.3 yrs
Median household income	$41,338	$42,167
Median home value	$118,700	$91,500
Median gross rent	$733	$917
Housing units	2,338	176
Homeownership rate	64.8%	63.3%
Bachelor's degree or higher	16.9%	11.4%
Unemployment rate	9.9%	11.4%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Cheboygan	Tower
Population	4,719 → 4,801 (+1.7%)	215 → 271 (+26.0%)
Median household income	$34,892 → $41,338 (+18.5%)	$38,750 → $42,167 (+8.8%)
Median home value	$80,600 → $118,700 (+47.3%)	$50,000 → $91,500 (+83.0%)
Median gross rent	$719 → $733 (+1.9%)	$682 → $917 (+34.5%)

Cheboygan

Population

4,7194,801

Median household income

$34,892$41,338

Median home value

$80,600$118,700

Median gross rent

$719$733

Tower

Population

215271

Median household income

$38,750$42,167

Median home value

$50,000$91,500

Median gross rent

$682$917

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Cheboygan	Tower
Under 5	3.7%	3.3%
5 to 17	13.7%	12.5%
18 to 24	7.4%	16.2%
25 to 34	15.0%	12.9%
35 to 44	12.5%	3.3%
45 to 54	9.5%	0.7%
55 to 64	13.6%	37.3%
65 to 74	16.3%	7.7%
75 and over	8.4%	5.9%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Cheboygan	Tower
White (non-Hispanic)	87.3%	79.7%
Black or African American	3.1%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	3.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.9%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.4%	0.0%
Two or more races	3.0%	12.2%
Hispanic or Latino	2.3%	8.1%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Cheboygan	Tower
No high school diploma	16.2%	16.8%
High school graduate	41.7%	46.2%
Some college or associate's	25.3%	25.5%
Bachelor's degree	10.8%	9.8%
Graduate or professional degree	6.1%	1.6%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Cheboygan	Tower
Drove alone	71.5%	100.0%
Carpooled	17.0%	0.0%
Public transit	2.7%	0.0%
Walked	1.6%	0.0%
Bicycle	3.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	4.2%	0.0%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Cheboygan	Tower
1-unit, detached	67.5%	71.0%
1-unit, attached	2.4%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	11.1%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	7.8%	0.0%
20 or more units	2.6%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	8.6%	29.0%

Poverty & households

	Cheboygan	Tower
Poverty rate	19.0%	23.2%
Average household size	2.28	2.77
Mean commute (minutes)	19	25
Median year structure built	1964	1969