City · Clinton County, Michigan

DeWitt, Michigan

DeWitt is a city in Clinton County, Michigan, part of the Lansing-East Lansing, MI metro area. It has 4,777 residents. DeWitt, Michigan has a quality-of-life score of 78 out of 100 (high), ranking #3,502 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Michigan it ranks #58 of 444 cities and towns. It ranks best on voter turnout (high), child care cost burden (low) and lack of reliable transportation (low). It ranks worst on pharmacies (low), restaurants and bars (low) and dentists (low).

78High

Quality-of-life score: #3,502 of 15,651 cities and towns
Michigan: #58 of 444 in MI
Population: 4,777 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 1,683.7 /mi²
FIPS code: 2622120

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 76 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety84#2,562/15,637
Economy87#2,019/15,631
Housing56#6,589/14,977
Health83#2,724/15,609
Healthcare55#7,063/15,650
Environment36#9,821/15,453
Education81#2,978/15,649
Infrastructure91#1,463/15,650
Community66#5,337/15,651
Leisure & amenities6#14,697/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where DeWitt, Michigan ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Clinton County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Voter turnout · high81.6%
98/100Michigan 74.6%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionClinton County value
Child care cost burden · low18.5%
97/100Michigan 25.4%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteClinton County value
Lack of reliable transportation · low5.2%
92/100Michigan 8.8%United States 8.3%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Poor or fair health · low12.2%
90/100Michigan 19.3%United States 19.9%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Primary care shortage · low0.0
90/100Michigan 8.3United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationClinton County value
Physical inactivity · low16.7%
90/100Michigan 25.0%United States 26.5%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate

Weaknesses

Pharmacies · low0.5 /10k
4/100Michigan 1.9 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsClinton County value
Restaurants and bars · low4.7 /10k
8/100Michigan 9.1 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsClinton County value
Dentists · low31 /100k
12/100Michigan 82 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteClinton County value
Effective property tax rate · high1.77%
12/100Michigan 1.19%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Primary care physicians · low31 /100k
13/100Michigan 81 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteClinton County value
New homes permitted · low0.0 /1k
13/100Michigan 2.2 /1kUnited States 4.2 /1kSep 2025–Aug 2026U.S. Census BureauProvisional data

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

New homes permittedWorsening
1.5 /1k (2021) → 0.0 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−100%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
42.2% (2015-2019) → 30.4% (2020-2024)
−12 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.1× (2015-2019) → 2.8× (2020-2024)
+31%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Child poverty rateWorsening
1.2% (2015-2019) → 6.5% (2020-2024)
+5.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Poverty rateWorsening
1.1% (2015-2019) → 5.6% (2020-2024)
+4.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
6.9% (2015-2019) → 2.6% (2020-2024)
−4.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, DeWitt, Michigan improved on 1 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 2. 9 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved1

Uninsured−4.3 points6.9% → 2.6%

Declined2

Poverty+4.5 points1.1% → 5.6%
Price / income+0.7×2.1× → 2.8×

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of DeWitt, Michigan between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	21.1 min2015-2019	23.0 min2020-2024	+1.8 min	Within the margin of error	29%
Bachelor's degree or higher	48.4%2015-2019	51.0%2020-2024	+2.6 points	Within the margin of error	48%
Broadband subscriptions	92.7%2015-2019	96.9%2020-2024	+4.2 points	Within the margin of error	27%
Effective property tax rate	1.97%2015-2019	1.77%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	58%
High school diploma or higher	96.3%2015-2019	98.0%2020-2024	+1.7 points	Within the margin of error	56%
Home price to income ratio	2.1×2015-2019	2.8×2020-2024	+0.7×	Declined	37%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4002015-2019	0.3882020-2024	−0.012	Within the margin of error	62%
Median household income	$96,0232015-2019	$110,3412020-2024	+15%	Within the margin of error	23%
Poverty rate	1.1%2015-2019	5.6%2020-2024	+4.5 points	Declined	14%
Rent as share of income	24.1%2015-2019	23.1%2020-2024	−1 points	Within the margin of error	63%
Rent-burdened households	42.2%2015-2019	30.4%2020-2024	−12 points	Within the margin of error	85%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	6.9%2015-2019	2.6%2020-2024	−4.3 points	Improved	84%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like DeWitt, Michigan five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of DeWitt, Michigan in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, DeWitt, Michigan itself moved +0.9 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

4,777 residents (±24)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

1,762 households (±122)

DeWitt, Michigan
Michigan share

Under $25k5.8%†103
$25k–50k12%†218
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

1,762 households (±122)

DeWitt, Michigan
Michigan share

Own82%1,453
Rent18%309

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+6.3 points).

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

2,443 workers (±202)

DeWitt, Michigan
Michigan share

Drive alone70%1,716
Carpool6.6%†161
Public transit0.1%†3

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Lansing-East Lansing, MI

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Clinton County, the county holding most of DeWitt's residents.

Clinton County has 1,406 employer establishments, 176 for every 10,000 residents (0.71× the US rate of 248; 0.77× Michigan's), with 17,584 paid employees at an average annual pay of $49,985. The Census Bureau also counts 6,089 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,406; 6,089 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 176; US 248 · Michigan 228
Paid employees: 17,584
Average annual pay: $49,985; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Clinton County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Specialty trade contractors	140	17.5	1.13×About typical	1,398	$70,918	555
Restaurants and other eating places	93	11.6	0.63×Fewer than typical	1,592	$17,543	19
Ambulatory health care services	78	9.8	0.47×Fewer than typical	878	$47,219	277
Lessors of real estate	72	9	0.73×Fewer than typical	152	$52,375	637
Construction of buildings	66	8.3	1.09×About typical	384	$61,375	245
Services to buildings and dwellings	51	6.4	0.95×About typical	376	$46,678	319
Building equipment contractors	50	6.3	1.04×About typical	727	$68,884	113
Religious organizations	46	5.8	1.04×About typical	400	$28,928	—
Limited-service restaurants	44	5.5	0.69×Fewer than typical	760	$17,518	6
Automotive repair and maintenance	39	4.9	0.97×About typical	280	$55,014	77
Insurance agencies and brokerages	38	4.8	1.08×About typical	135	$52,704	99
Truck transportation	35	4.4	0.87×About typical	337	$60,899	81

Rank places for an industry Open Clinton County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 79,877 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in DeWitt, Michigan: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

3.6KFY2017
1.9KFY2018
445.9FY2019
0FY2020
-305.7FY2021
1KFY2023
258.8FY2024

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in DeWitt, Michigan, so they do not add up across cities.

DeWitt, Michigan's figures are part of those of Clinton County, MI ($39.4M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: DeWitt is mostly in Clinton County.

See federal money in Clinton County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

DeWitt, Michigan is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Tom BarrettR-MI-7 · 100% of residentsWith party 97%Missed 0.7%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Clinton County81100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Lansing-East Lansing, MI69

Other cities and towns in Clinton County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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