Ellsworth, MI population, income and ZIP codes

Ellsworth village is a very small community in Michigan, with 284 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #634 of 745 ranked by population — larger than 14% of them. The median age here is 42 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Ellsworth village earn a median of $70,000 a year, 10.9% below the national figure of $78,538 and 13% above the $61,715 median for the 438 Michigan cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 8.8% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Ellsworth village is valued at $153,100, 49.5% below the national figure and 8% below the $166,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $386 a month, 72.5% below the national figure, or roughly $4,632 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 6.6% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 90.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

With 284 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Ellsworth village against its county rather than against national figures.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.