Saranac, MI population, income and ZIP codes

Saranac village is a small town in Michigan, with 1,973 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #312 of 745 ranked by population — larger than 58% of them. The median age here is 33.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger 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 Saranac village earn a median of $64,157 a year, 18.3% below the national figure of $78,538 and 4% above the $61,715 median for the 438 Michigan cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 13% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Saranac village is valued at $183,300, 39.6% below the national figure and 10% above the $166,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $415 a month, 70.5% below the national figure, or roughly $4,980 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 7.8% 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 2.9×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 67.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. 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.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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.