Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI

Metropolitan statistical area, CBSA 24340 · 42.98, -85.71

4 findings fired for Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI this run, against a typical home value of $355,636 in September 2026 and covered employment of 591,898 in 2026 Q1.

Jobs, OEWS
598,260
as of May 2025
  • 87th pct · 49th of 393 US metro areas · median 105,500

Total employment in the BLS OEWS occupational tables for this metro area. It is an occupational survey total, not the QCEW payroll count below.

Jobs, county rollup
591,898
as of 2026 Q1

An estimate: the sum of the member counties BLS publishes, not BLS's own metro row, whose boundaries follow each year's delineation. The arithmetic is printed below.

Typical home value
$355,636
as of 2026-09
  • 64th pct · 137th of 379 US metro areas · median $305,707

Zillow Home Value Index, metro file, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

Typical rent
$1,614
as of 2026-09
  • 60th pct · 150th of 382 US metro areas · median $1,504

Zillow Observed Rent Index, metro file.

Price-to-rent
18.4years of rent
as of 2026-09
  • 65th pct · 130th of 379 US metro areas · median 16.9

typical home value / (typical rent × 12); Zillow ZHVI over ZORI, same month.

Home value, 1-yr
4.9%
as of 2026-09
  • 88th pct · 46th of 379 US metro areas · median 2.0%

Zillow's own twelve-month change on the metro row.

A percentile here is a min-max scaling of average rank: the smallest published value in the cohort is 0 and the largest is 100, and tied values share the average of the ranks they span. It is not the share of entities below the value, so 0 means smallest, not none below. Entities that did not publish the metric are outside the cohort entirely and are counted in neither the rank nor its denominator.

Occupation mix #

currentas of May 2025retrieved 2026-10-19

The 30 largest detailed occupations and all 22 SOC major groups in Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI, from the bundled BLS OEWS release.

Top 30 detailed occupations by employment, Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI, OEWS May 2025.
SOCOccupationJobsMean annual wageLocation quotient
51-2090Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators19,540$42,5903.61
53-7062Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand18,840$38,7501.66
29-1141Registered Nurses13,740$89,9101.06
35-3023Fast Food and Counter Workers13,190$29,7900.89
41-2031Retail Salespersons12,600$38,3800.84
37-2011Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners11,490$36,7301.35
43-9061Office Clerks, General11,310$45,8401.19
53-7065Stockers and Order Fillers10,960$37,3101.01
11-1021General and Operations Managers10,880$124,1800.81
53-3032Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers10,820$56,9901.36
41-2011Cashiers9,670$31,3300.81
43-4051Customer Service Representatives9,010$46,3000.90
31-1120Home Health and Personal Care Aides8,160$34,6900.49
35-3031Waiters and Waitresses8,080$47,0400.92
51-9061Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers7,020$43,1903.05
41-4012Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products6,980$80,4801.47
31-1131Nursing Assistants5,870$40,3001.05
13-2011Accountants and Auditors5,670$84,7401.02
25-9045Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary5,490$36,0501.00
49-9071Maintenance and Repair Workers, General5,470$52,1000.93
25-2021Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education5,080$65,3100.95
43-3031Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks5,070$51,2100.96
35-2014Cooks, Restaurant4,850$37,9200.89
51-1011First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers4,810$70,6501.86
43-5071Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks4,710$45,8201.50
43-6014Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive4,710$46,5600.72
53-7051Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators4,680$44,2001.57
37-3011Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers4,590$40,4801.25
53-3033Light Truck Drivers4,520$48,4901.20
25-2031Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education4,330$70,1001.06
All 22 SOC major groups, Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI, OEWS May 2025.
SOCOccupationJobsMean annual wageLocation quotient
51-0000Production Occupations86,710$46,4902.63
53-0000Transportation and Material Moving Occupations63,910$43,9001.21
43-0000Office and Administrative Support Occupations62,390$49,1400.91
35-0000Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations45,850$37,2700.87
41-0000Sales and Related Occupations44,460$53,1200.86
29-0000Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations38,240$98,8301.01
11-0000Management Occupations36,480$127,0800.85
13-0000Business and Financial Operations Occupations31,610$81,1400.78
25-0000Educational Instruction and Library Occupations29,230$60,2800.83
49-0000Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations24,630$59,6501.05
31-0000Healthcare Support Occupations22,270$41,1300.73
47-0000Construction and Extraction Occupations21,940$62,7000.89
37-0000Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations20,870$38,4701.19
17-0000Architecture and Engineering Occupations14,280$91,6701.42
15-0000Computer and Mathematical Occupations12,630$96,2600.62
39-0000Personal Care and Service Occupations9,490$38,2000.76
21-0000Community and Social Service Occupations9,380$57,0100.91
33-0000Protective Service Occupations8,230$56,8100.57
27-0000Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations7,110$60,6000.90
19-0000Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations3,320$81,5300.59
23-0000Legal Occupations2,890$111,4500.58
45-0000Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations2,380$41,5801.42

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, metropolitan area tables, committed to this repository rather than fetched. A location quotient above 1 means the occupation is more concentrated here than in the United States as a whole; wages are means, not medians, and BLS suppresses a wage where its sample is too thin.

Housing #

currentas of 2026-09retrieved 2026-10-19

The typical home in the Grand Rapids, MI metro was worth $355,636 in September 2026.

25 months to September 2026. Rent: $1,614 in September 2026.

Zillow's metro row was matched to this CBSA BY NAME, not by a shared code: Zillow titles metros short ("Austin, TX") where the Census titles them long. Both series are Zillow's own smoothed indices of the middle third of the market, not sale prices.

Employment, rolled up from member counties #

currentas of 2026 Q1retrieved 2026-10-19

About 591,898 covered jobs across the 5 member counties BLS published.

  • jobs = sum of QCEW third-month employment across the 5 of 5 member counties BLS publishes.
  • 591,898 = 13,156 + 19,841 + 415,932 + 16,053 + 126,916
The 5 counties the place manifest assigns to CBSA 24340.
CountyFIPS
Barry County, MI26015
Ionia County, MI26067
Kent County, MI26081
Montcalm County, MI26117
Ottawa County, MI26139

There are no QCEW metro employment totals here, and that is a property of the data rather than an omission: BLS does publish MSA area codes (C####), but lib/economy's QCEW reader handles only county (SSCCC), state (SS000) and national (US000) rows at aggregation levels 74, 54 and 14, and the /api/economy route regex rejects anything else. So this figure is a sum of member counties, labelled an estimate, with every county it could not count named.

National indicator context #

currentretrieved 2026-10-19

None of these series is keyed to this metro area. They are national, gauge, single-state or port series, shown as context for the numbers above.

The national indicator set, filtered by lens only.
IndicatorLatestUnitStatus
Mississippi River at Memphis, stagenot publishedftno data
Mississippi River at St. Louis, stagenot publishedftno data
Ohio River at Louisville, stage17.95ftok
Missouri River at St. Joseph, stagenot publishedftno data
Colorado River below Hoover Dam, flow (Hoover releases)5,170.00ft³/sok
Texas reservoirs, statewide percent full72.20%ok
Laredo truck crossings, monthly258,700.00trucksok
Los Angeles + Long Beach container volume, annual10,513,167.00TEUwatch
Containerships waiting for a berth, all US ports7.00shipsok
Shanghai to Los Angeles container rate7,848.00$ per 40 ft boxwatch
US diesel retail pricenot published$ per gallonno data
WTI crude oil, spot101.91$ per barrelwatch
30-year fixed mortgage rate7.40%watch
Housing starts, annual rate1,275.00thousands of unitsok
Building permits, annual rate1,403.00thousands of unitsok
Case-Shiller US home price index337.31index, Jan 2000 = 100ok
Unemployment rate4.20%ok
US goods and services trade balance, monthly-105,572.00$ millionsok
Retail sales excluding food services, monthly652,115.00$ millionsok

lib/indicators has no geographic selection: every registry entry is a United States, gauge, Texas, port, crossing or world series, and no entry is metro-keyed. Reading these as this metro's own readings would be wrong.

What changed #

currentretrieved 2026-10-19

Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI: 4 findings, 4 noted

  1. noteGrand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI's typical home value rose 0.4% from $354,266 in August 2026 to $355,636 in September 2026, on Zillow ZHVI.

    Period 2026-09.
    Show the arithmetic
    • +0.4% = (355635.9295934884 - 354265.56688816566) / 354265.56688816566 × 100
    • 355635.9295934884 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-09
    • 354265.56688816566 = Zillow ZHVI, 2026-08

  2. noteThe next Unemployment rate (BLS Employment Situation, monthly) covering Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI is due between 2026-10-30 and 2026-11-13, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.

    Show the arithmetic
    • window = 2026-10-30 to 2026-11-13, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern

    estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date

  3. noteThe next Zillow ZHVI typical home value (monthly) covering Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI is due between 2026-11-14 and 2026-11-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.

    Show the arithmetic
    • window = 2026-11-14 to 2026-11-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern

    estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date

  4. noteThe next Zillow ZORI typical rent (monthly) covering Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI is due between 2026-11-14 and 2026-11-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern.

    Show the arithmetic
    • window = 2026-11-14 to 2026-11-21, estimated from the publisher's past release pattern

    estimated from the publisher's past release pattern; not an announced date

The full Grand Rapids, MI brief, with the arithmetic behind every sentence.

Metro briefs are thinner by construction: with no QCEW metro path, their findings come from Zillow's metro home value and rent rows, the county rollup, and nearby crossings and ports.

Sources #

  • publishedOccupational Employment and Wage StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statisticsopen the source
    MSA 24340, all occupations · period May 2025 · retrieved 2026-10-19
  • estimateQuarterly Census of Employment and WagesU.S. Bureau of Labor Statisticsopen the source
    · retrieved 2026-10-19 · jobs = sum of QCEW third-month employment across the 5 of 5 member counties BLS publishes. 591,898 = 13,156 + 19,841 + 415,932 + 16,053 + 126,916
  • publishedZillow Home Value Index (ZHVI)Zillow Researchopen the source
    Metro_zhvi_uc_sfrcondo_tier_0.33_0.67_sm_sa_month.csv · period 2026-09 · retrieved 2026-10-19
  • publishedZillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI)Zillow Researchopen the source
    Metro_zori_uc_sfrcondomfr_sm_month.csv · period 2026-09 · retrieved 2026-10-19
  • estimateZillow Home Value Index (ZHVI)Zillow Researchopen the source
    · retrieved 2026-10-19 · typical home value / (typical rent × 12); Zillow ZHVI over ZORI, same month
  • estimateZillow Home Value Index (ZHVI)Zillow Researchopen the source
    · retrieved 2026-10-19 · month-over-month percent change = (newest month − previous month) / |previous month| × 100, from Zillow's own published month columns
  • estimateZillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI)Zillow Researchopen the source
    · retrieved 2026-10-19 · month-over-month percent change = (newest month − previous month) / |previous month| × 100, from Zillow's own published month columns

Citations

  • U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics. series MSA 24340, all occupations. period May 2025. https://www.bls.gov/oes/tables.htm. accessed 2026-10-19.
  • U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. https://www.bls.gov/cew/. accessed 2026-10-19. estimate computed by Embedding Atlas: jobs = sum of QCEW third-month employment across the 5 of 5 member counties BLS publishes. 591,898 = 13,156 + 19,841 + 415,932 + 16,053 + 126,916.
  • Zillow Research. Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI). series Metro_zhvi_uc_sfrcondo_tier_0.33_0.67_sm_sa_month.csv. period 2026-09. https://files.zillowstatic.com/research/public_csvs/zhvi/Metro_zhvi_uc_sfrcondo_tier_0.33_0.67_sm_sa_month.csv. accessed 2026-10-19.
  • Zillow Research. Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI). series Metro_zori_uc_sfrcondomfr_sm_month.csv. period 2026-09. https://files.zillowstatic.com/research/public_csvs/zori/Metro_zori_uc_sfrcondomfr_sm_month.csv. accessed 2026-10-19.
  • Zillow Research. Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI). https://www.zillow.com/research/data/. accessed 2026-10-19. estimate computed by Embedding Atlas: typical home value / (typical rent × 12); Zillow ZHVI over ZORI, same month.
  • Zillow Research. Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI). https://www.zillow.com/research/data/. accessed 2026-10-19. estimate computed by Embedding Atlas: month-over-month percent change = (newest month − previous month) / |previous month| × 100, from Zillow's own published month columns.
  • Zillow Research. Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI). https://www.zillow.com/research/data/. accessed 2026-10-19. estimate computed by Embedding Atlas: month-over-month percent change = (newest month − previous month) / |previous month| × 100, from Zillow's own published month columns.

What these numbers are not

  • There is no metro market report: MarketReport describes a county or a state, and BLS QCEW's own metro rows follow each year's delineation, so they are not used here. The metro page shows Zillow's own metro rows and a county-rollup employment estimate with its arithmetic instead.
  • Zillow's metro row was matched to this CBSA BY NAME (Zillow titles metros short, "Austin, TX", where the Census titles them long), not by a shared code. RegionID 394640.
  • Metro employment is an ESTIMATE: the sum of the member counties BLS did publish, not BLS QCEW's own metro row, whose boundaries follow each year's delineation. Withheld counties are named and excluded, never zeroed.
  • The indicator block is the NATIONAL set, filtered only by lens. None of these series is keyed to this place: they are United States, gauge, single-state or port series and they are shown as context, not as this place's own readings.

Page assembled 2026-10-19T16:56:58.248Z. Place identity tables pulled 2026-10-01.