Home appreciation in Battle Creek, MI

Over the five years ending 2025, home prices in Battle Creek, MI grew an average of 9.6% a year.

Price growth at a glance

1-year

+5.6%

2025 over 2024. Michigan: +5.7%.

5-year, per year

+9.6%

Average annual growth, 2020 to 2025. Michigan: +9.1%.

10-year, per year

+7.3%

+102.6% in total since 2015. Michigan: +7.4%.

How does your home compare?

Battle Creek, MI home prices rose 102.6% over the ten years to 2025, while its ZIP codes ranged from +64.3% to +136.3%. Look up your home to see where it ranks among the homes around it.

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How Battle Creek, MI compares with Michigan

Michigan averaged +9.1% a year, so Battle Creek, MI grew faster than the state overall. For five-year price growth, Battle Creek, MI ranks 148th out of 409 metros nationwide and 6th out of 16 in Michigan.

Index, 2005 = 100

Battle Creek, MI and Michigan, quarterly house price index rebased to 100 in 2005.
YearBattle Creek, MIMichigan
2005 Q1100100
2005 Q299101
2005 Q3101101
2005 Q4102101
2006 Q1102101
2006 Q210299
2006 Q310198
2006 Q410199
2007 Q110198
2007 Q29896
2007 Q39693
2007 Q49593
2008 Q19792
2008 Q29489
2008 Q39385
2008 Q48984
2009 Q19486
2009 Q29083
2009 Q38479
2009 Q48578
2010 Q18376
2010 Q28375
2010 Q38776
2010 Q48576
2011 Q18173
2011 Q28072
2011 Q38073
2011 Q48474
2012 Q18372
2012 Q28072
2012 Q38173
2012 Q48074
2013 Q18175
2013 Q28177
2013 Q37978
2013 Q48279
2014 Q18180
2014 Q28082
2014 Q38284
2014 Q48585
2015 Q18585
2015 Q28687
2015 Q38788
2015 Q48889
2016 Q18789
2016 Q28791
2016 Q39293
2016 Q49294
2017 Q19295
2017 Q29497
2017 Q39699
2017 Q493100
2018 Q197101
2018 Q296104
2018 Q3100105
2018 Q4101106
2019 Q1101107
2019 Q2103109
2019 Q3106110
2019 Q4107111
2020 Q1109112
2020 Q2108113
2020 Q3111116
2020 Q4114118
2021 Q1119121
2021 Q2125128
2021 Q3131134
2021 Q4136137
2022 Q1140141
2022 Q2146150
2022 Q3148151
2022 Q4147149
2023 Q1149150
2023 Q2155158
2023 Q3156160
2023 Q4158161
2024 Q1160163
2024 Q2166169
2024 Q3169171
2024 Q4168171
2025 Q1171174
2025 Q2171178
2025 Q3178180
2025 Q4180181
2026 Q1178182
2026 Q2186186

Chart through 2026 Q2. Annual growth figures through 2025.

Growth was stronger over the last five years than over the full decade: +7.3% a year over ten years, +102.6% in total.

Over this history, home prices peaked in 2006, fell 20.0% to its 2013 low, and regained the 2006 level in 2019.

The strongest year was 2021 at +15.4%, and the weakest was 2009 at -5.7%.

In 2025 alone the index moved +5.6%, against +5.7% for the state.

ZIP codes in Battle Creek, MI

Over the ten years to 2025, the 10 ZIP codes FHFA measures in this metro ranged from +64.3% in 49245 to +136.3% in 49037, while the metro as a whole rose 102.6%.

Fastest-rising ZIP codes

10-year change

  1. 49037+136.3%
  2. 49224+105.7%
  3. 49017+97.8%
  4. 49015+97.1%
  5. 49092+95.3%

Slowest-rising ZIP codes

10-year change

  1. 49245+64.3%
  2. 49051+83.1%
  3. 49068+84.3%
  4. 49014+92.3%
  5. 49033+92.8%
ZIP codes in Battle Creek, MI ranked by 10-year home-price change through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
49037+6.7%+10.3%+9.0%+136.3%
49224-2.9%+9.0%+7.5%+105.7%
49017+4.2%+9.7%+7.1%+97.8%
49015+2.6%+8.8%+7.0%+97.1%
49092+18.1%+10.3%+6.9%+95.3%
49033+10.8%+8.7%+6.8%+92.8%
49014+0.2%+9.3%+6.8%+92.3%
49068+5.6%+8.3%+6.3%+84.3%
49051+3.5%+9.0%+6.2%+83.1%
49245-5.6%+6.3%+5.1%+64.3%

What a home report shows

Enter an address and you get a score out of 10 for how the home ranks on appreciation potential against comparable homes in its market, with the nearby sales behind it. Here is one saved report.

Example report · saved October 14, 2026

165 N Canal St, Apt 1205, Chicago, IL 60606

Appreciation score

4.1 / 10

Around the median

Where it ranks

Ranks above about 41% of comparable homes in Chicago, IL for appreciation potential.

Price against nearby sales

Priced below most nearby sales, at $300 per square foot across 6 comparable sales.

Read the full example report

Year by year

Annual house price index for Battle Creek, MI and Michigan, 2005 = 100 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
2005100.0—100.0
2006100.9+0.9%98.5
200797.5-3.4%94.3
200893.1-4.5%86.9
200987.8-5.7%80.6
201084.0-4.3%75.1
201181.3-3.3%72.2
201280.8-0.6%72.3
201380.7-0.1%76.7
201482.0+1.7%81.9
201586.1+5.0%86.5
201689.4+3.8%91.2
201793.7+4.8%97.2
201898.2+4.7%103.2
2019104.2+6.2%108.6
2020110.2+5.8%114.2
2021127.2+15.4%129.0
2022144.8+13.8%146.6
2023154.3+6.5%155.9
2024165.2+7.1%167.2
2025174.5+5.6%176.7

The 16 measured metros in Michigan

Measured metros in Michigan ranked by 5-year home-price appreciation through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
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1Traverse City, MI+7.4%+12.0%+9.1%
2Muskegon-Norton Shores, MI+6.7%+11.7%+9.5%
3Bay City, MI+5.1%+10.2%+6.9%
4Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI+5.1%+10.2%+8.8%
5Midland, MI+6.5%+9.8%+6.6%
6Battle Creek, MI+5.6%+9.6%+7.3%
7Niles, MI+4.9%+9.4%+7.1%
8Saginaw, MI+5.1%+9.4%+7.0%
9Kalamazoo-Portage, MI+5.0%+9.0%+7.1%
10Jackson, MI+6.5%+8.9%+7.3%
11Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia, MI (metropolitan division)+6.4%+8.7%+7.3%
12Flint, MI+6.6%+8.7%+7.4%
13Lansing-East Lansing, MI+5.6%+8.6%+7.0%
14Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills, MI (metropolitan division)+5.1%+8.1%+6.8%
15Monroe, MI+6.5%+8.0%+6.4%
16Ann Arbor, MI+4.4%+7.8%+6.6%

Source & method: Metro figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index for metropolitan statistical areas and metropolitan divisions, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. State figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. The chart uses quarterly readings, with each series set to 100 in the first quarter of 2005. ZIP figures: FHFA annual five-digit ZIP index (developmental), ZIPs with sufficient transaction history. Missing years are reported as missing by FHFA and are not estimated. Each ZIP is placed in the metro that holds the county with most of its housing units. “5-yr /yr” and “10-yr /yr” are compound annual growth over the window ending 2025; all figures are nominal. Data published by the FHFA House Price Index; this edition compiled 2026-10-17. Educational data, not investment advice.

See the Michigan row in the state rankings, the county rankings, and, for why one metro number hides so much, why two homes in the same ZIP code appreciate differently.

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Measured FHFA data · chart through 2026 Q2