Grass Lake vs Michigan Center

A side-by-side comparison of Grass Lake and Michigan Center: population, income, housing, and more.

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

Michigan Center has the higher population (4,623 vs 1,235 in Grass Lake). Grass Lake has the higher median household income ($74,306 vs $68,114 in Michigan Center). Grass Lake has the higher median home value ($199,400 vs $159,500 in Michigan Center).

Population, income & housing

	Grass Lake	Michigan Center
Population	1,235	4,623
Median age	32.5 yrs	44.0 yrs
Median household income	$74,306	$68,114
Median home value	$199,400	$159,500
Median gross rent	$954	$1,051
Housing units	569	2,348
Homeownership rate	77.3%	88.0%
Bachelor's degree or higher	30.9%	21.1%
Unemployment rate	2.6%	3.4%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Grass Lake	Michigan Center
Population	1,230 → 1,235 (+0.4%)	4,797 → 4,623 (-3.6%)
Median household income	$67,619 → $74,306 (+9.9%)	$56,373 → $68,114 (+20.8%)
Median home value	$155,900 → $199,400 (+27.9%)	$117,800 → $159,500 (+35.4%)
Median gross rent	$833 → $954 (+14.5%)	$817 → $1,051 (+28.6%)

Grass Lake

Population

1,2301,235

Median household income

$67,619$74,306

Median home value

$155,900$199,400

Median gross rent

$833$954

Michigan Center

Population

4,7974,623

Median household income

$56,373$68,114

Median home value

$117,800$159,500

Median gross rent

$817$1,051

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Grass Lake	Michigan Center
Under 5	9.1%	5.0%
5 to 17	13.4%	15.7%
18 to 24	9.1%	7.9%
25 to 34	22.6%	14.1%
35 to 44	9.4%	10.1%
45 to 54	9.7%	12.6%
55 to 64	9.2%	17.4%
65 to 74	10.6%	10.7%
75 and over	6.8%	6.5%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Grass Lake	Michigan Center
White (non-Hispanic)	93.9%	91.4%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.9%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.6%
Asian	1.2%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	2.1%	3.3%
Hispanic or Latino	2.8%	3.9%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Grass Lake	Michigan Center
No high school diploma	1.3%	7.0%
High school graduate	29.6%	34.4%
Some college or associate's	38.2%	37.4%
Bachelor's degree	22.3%	12.1%
Graduate or professional degree	8.6%	9.0%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Grass Lake	Michigan Center
Drove alone	75.5%	80.0%
Carpooled	6.3%	9.8%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	2.0%	2.6%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	15.0%	7.7%
Other means	1.3%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Grass Lake	Michigan Center
1-unit, detached	74.5%	96.2%
1-unit, attached	5.3%	0.3%
2 to 4 units	14.6%	2.4%
5 to 19 units	5.3%	1.1%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	0.4%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Grass Lake	Michigan Center
Poverty rate	6.2%	3.6%
Average household size	2.33	2.14
Mean commute (minutes)	28	26
Median year structure built	1954	1956