Community Profile
What sold, what is being built, and what the public record says about every city and township in Kalamazoo County. Compiled from government sources and updated as they publish.
Kalamazoo County closed 326 homes in July at an average of $346,138, averaging 22 days on market, with 582 listings active. Sold, price and days on market are July closings; active is the current count.
| Market | Homes Sold | Active Now | Avg Sold Price | Avg Days on Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kalamazoo | 184 | 351 | $308,704 | 22 |
| Portage | 65 | 95 | $404,424 | 25 |
| Mattawan | 16 | 25 | $394,085 | 19 |
| Vicksburg | 16 | 31 | $266,312 | 25 |
| Richland | 14 | 31 | $434,589 | 26 |
| Galesburg | 11 | 17 | $420,318 | 15 |
| Schoolcraft | 7 | 17 | $434,486 | 16 |
| Scotts | 6 | 6 | $454,083 | 9 |
| Augusta | 5 | 4 | $449,180 | 12 |
| Climax | 1 | 3 | $216,000 | 29 |
| Parchment | 1 | 2 | $250,000 | 37 |
Where It Is Being Built
Permits pulled for new residential construction in 2025 across Kalamazoo County total 438 units at $151,565,283 of construction value, fewer than in 2022. Where a community's units sit in the five-plus column, it is adding apartments and condominiums rather than subdivisions. The table lists the 12 busiest municipalities, which account for 428 of those units; the rest are spread across the remaining communities.
| Municipality | Single Family | 2 to 4 Units | 5+ Units | Total Units | Construction Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portage | 141 | 0 | 0 | 141 | $29,769,261 |
| Comstock charter township | 67 | 0 | 0 | 67 | $18,226,579 |
| Oshtemo charter township | 58 | 6 | 0 | 64 | $27,605,748 |
| Texas charter township | 55 | 0 | 0 | 55 | $32,444,100 |
| Richland township | 50 | 0 | 0 | 50 | $20,353,977 |
| Vicksburg village | 14 | 0 | 0 | 14 | $3,530,914 |
| Ross township | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | $3,929,130 |
| Schoolcraft township | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | $4,125,000 |
| Brady township | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | $2,544,000 |
| Charleston township | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | $1,767,320 |
| Kalamazoo charter township | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | $326,292 |
| Alamo township | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | $1,460,000 |
Where Everything Is
Every city and township in the county. Click any one to open its own profile. Boundaries are the Census Bureau's own, so what you see here is exactly what the data above describes.
Every City and Township
All 23 municipalities in Kalamazoo County, from the American Community Survey. Median home value here is what owners report their homes are worth across all housing, which runs lower than what changed hands last month. Names link to the municipality's own website where we could verify it.
| Municipality | Population | Median Income | Median Home Value | Owner Occupied | Median Year Built | Commute (min) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kalamazoo city | 73,132 | $48,965 | $164,500 | 42.9% | 1959 | 18.0 |
| Portage city | 49,015 | $79,529 | $243,400 | 68.0% | 1978 | 19.5 |
| Oshtemo charter township | 23,743 | $66,122 | $293,900 | 50.3% | 1988 | 19.9 |
| Kalamazoo charter township | 22,619 | $58,838 | $167,500 | 62.3% | 1967 | 21.5 |
| Texas charter township | 17,935 | $141,681 | $399,400 | 95.0% | 1998 | 22.2 |
| Comstock charter township | 15,187 | $77,376 | $223,400 | 69.3% | 1979 | 20.2 |
| Cooper charter township | 10,452 | $94,257 | $226,600 | 76.8% | 1974 | 21.7 |
| Schoolcraft township | 9,189 | $75,417 | $236,300 | 79.8% | 1980 | 21.4 |
| Richland township | 8,768 | $110,411 | $294,500 | 91.9% | 1987 | 26.9 |
| Pavilion township | 6,367 | $77,645 | $239,400 | 90.0% | 1982 | 22.6 |
| Ross township | 4,849 | $106,563 | $346,700 | 84.9% | 1975 | 23.4 |
| Brady township | 4,447 | $101,111 | $236,800 | 93.6% | 1970 | 25.1 |
| Vicksburg | 3,824 | $70,070 | $208,300 | 76.5% | 1984 | 24.6 |
| Alamo township | 3,812 | $78,906 | $218,600 | 92.9% | 1977 | 24.4 |
| Mattawan | 2,615 | $82,026 | $177,500 | 77.0% | 1992 | 20.7 |
| Climax township | 2,302 | $78,438 | $202,800 | 88.4% | 1977 | 26.4 |
| Prairie Ronde township | 2,179 | $127,336 | $341,600 | 96.9% | 1989 | 24.7 |
| Galesburg city | 2,122 | $50,481 | $104,100 | 61.1% | 1960 | 22.5 |
| Parchment city | 2,012 | $54,572 | $178,400 | 56.9% | 1954 | 19.0 |
| Charleston township | 1,941 | $80,625 | $234,900 | 96.0% | 1970 | 18.6 |
| Wakeshma township | 1,366 | $75,417 | $178,000 | 93.0% | 1980 | 27.7 |
| Augusta | 726 | $58,958 | $135,200 | 60.8% | 1955 | 25.1 |
| Scotts | 145 | $87,667 | $132,800 | 100.0% | 1943 | 27.4 |
Worth Knowing
Sourced history and curiosities from this county. More at our Michigan facts page.
On August 19, 1959 it closed a stretch of Burdick Street to cars and opened the nation's first permanent outdoor pedestrian shopping mall. Architect Victor Gruen designed it for about $60,000, and roughly 200 other cities copied the idea. Source
At its 1960s peak the Gibson plant at 225 Parsons Street turned out more than 1,000 guitars a day and employed close to 1,000 people. Gibson moved to Nashville and the Kalamazoo plant closed on September 14, 1984. Source
A group of laid off employees stayed behind and incorporated Heritage Guitar on April 1, 1985, building instruments in the same Parsons Street building. Guitars are still made there today. Source
William E. Upjohn, born in Richland, patented the first easily dissolvable pill in 1884, soft enough to crush under a thumb so it would actually break down in the stomach. He and his brothers founded their company in Kalamazoo in 1886, and a thumb crushing a pill became the trademark. Source
Dutch immigrant farmers began working the area's black muck soil in the 1870s and found it nearly perfect for celery. Kalamazoo shipped trainloads of it for decades, with growers blanching the stalks under boards to keep them pale and mild, until California's climate took the market. Source
Kalamazoo. Checker's factory produced its first taxicab on June 18, 1923, and the Checker Marathon rolled on with almost no styling changes from the mid 1950s until the last one came off the line on July 12, 1982. Source
Kalamazoo. The Glenn Miller Orchestra introduced I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo in the 1942 film Orchestra Wives, written by Harry Warren and Mack Gordon. It was nominated for Best Song and became one of the biggest selling records of the year. Source
He did, though he was born in Pequannock, New Jersey on June 26, 1974. Jeter was raised in Kalamazoo and starred there before the Yankees drafted him, and he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2020. Source
Still debated That is the popular story, usually attached to a legend about a foot race run before a pot could boil, but it does not hold up. A Pokagon Band of Potawatomi language specialist notes the language has no L sound, and one longtime local historian found that a version he had repeated for years had simply been invented. Nobody knows for certain. Source
Where This Comes From
Population, income, home value, ownership, housing age and commute times come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey five-year estimates. New construction comes from the Census Building Permits Survey. Sold and active listing figures are Legacy's own read of the MLS for July 2026 closings, Legacy's read as of early August 2026. Local facts carry their own source link.
We do not publish crime statistics or school ratings. Those figures are reported by agency and district rather than by community, they lag by a year or more, and ranking communities on them is not something a brokerage should be doing. For public safety, the FBI publishes reported offenses by the agency that actually covers each community, and for schools the State of Michigan publishes district data directly. Both are linked below so you can read the primary source yourself.
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