Wolverine Lake, MI population, income and ZIP codes

Wolverine Lake village is a small town in Michigan, with 4,476 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #192 of 745 ranked by population — larger than 74% of them. The median age here is 43.9 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 Wolverine Lake village earn a median of $88,423 a year, 12.6% above the national figure of $78,538 and 43% above the $61,715 median for the 438 Michigan cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 6.9% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Wolverine Lake village is valued at $270,400, 10.9% below the national figure and 63% above the $166,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,678 a month, 19.3% above the national figure, or roughly $20,136 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 22.8% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.1×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 74.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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.