Village · Barry County, Michigan

Middleville, Michigan

Middleville is a village in Barry County, Michigan, part of the Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI metro area. It has 4,380 residents. Middleville, Michigan has a quality-of-life score of 49 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #7,908 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Michigan it ranks #172 of 444 cities and towns. It ranks best on voter turnout (high), child care cost burden (low) and mental health care shortage (low). It ranks worst on suicide rate (high), grocery stores (low) and dentists (low).

49Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #7,908 of 15,651 cities and towns
Michigan: #172 of 444 in MI
Population: 4,380 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 1,792.5 /mi²
FIPS code: 2653760

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 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.

Safety50#7,739/15,637
Economy63#5,712/15,631
Housing81#2,921/14,977
Health55#7,031/15,609
Healthcare55#7,052/15,650
Environment34#10,126/15,453
Education37#9,809/15,649
Infrastructure21#12,289/15,650
Community76#3,680/15,651
Leisure & amenities16#13,083/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Middleville, Michigan ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Barry 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 · high79.7%
95/100Michigan 74.6%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionBarry County value
Child care cost burden · low20.3%
94/100Michigan 25.4%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBarry County value
Mental health care shortage · low0.0
91/100Michigan 9.3United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationBarry County value
Primary care shortage · low0.0
90/100Michigan 8.3United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationBarry County value
Drought exposure · low2%
90/100Michigan 13%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAABarry County value
Rent-burdened households · low17.3%
85/100Michigan 50.4%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070High uncertainty

Weaknesses

Suicide rate · high31.3 /100k
3/100Michigan 14.5 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataBarry County value
Grocery stores · low0.6 /10k
3/100Michigan 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsBarry County value
Dentists · low24 /100k
6/100Michigan 82 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBarry County value
Broadband subscriptions · low82.3%
7/100Michigan 90.5%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Public EV charging ports · low0.6 /10k
9/100Michigan 5.6 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyBarry County value
Firearm deaths · high21.9 /100k
11/100Michigan 12.4 /100kUnited States 12.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataBarry County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
3,412 (2015-2019) → 4,380 (2020-2024)
+28%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
36.7% (2015-2019) → 17.3% (2020-2024)
−19 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.1× (2015-2019) → 3.1× (2020-2024)
+47%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Income inequality (Gini index)Worsening
0.311 (2015-2019) → 0.415 (2020-2024)
+33%5 yearsCensus table B19083US 0.482 → 0.483
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
20.6% (2015-2019) → 25.9% (2020-2024)
+5.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Median household incomeImproving
$59,536 (2015-2019) → $73,625 (2020-2024)
+24%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604

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, Middleville, Michigan improved on 0 of 10 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 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.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined1

Inequality+0.1040.311 → 0.415

All 10 measures

Change of every measure of Middleville, Michigan between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	26.4 min2015-2019	25.3 min2020-2024	−1.1 min	Within the margin of error	61%
Bachelor's degree or higher	20.6%2015-2019	25.9%2020-2024	+5.3 points	Within the margin of error	70%
Broadband subscriptions	85.7%2015-2019	82.3%2020-2024	−3.4 points	Within the margin of error	3%
Effective property tax rate	1.53%2015-2019	1.24%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	72%
High school diploma or higher	98.2%2015-2019	96.2%2020-2024	−2 points	Within the margin of error	15%
Home price to income ratio	2.1×2015-2019	3.1×2020-2024	+1.0×	Within the margin of error	23%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3112015-2019	0.4152020-2024	+0.104	Declined	4%
Median household income	$59,5362015-2019	$73,6252020-2024	+24%	Within the margin of error	41%
Poverty rate	6.1%2015-2019	7.7%2020-2024	+1.6 points	Within the margin of error	29%
Rent as share of income	26.1%2015-2019	25.9%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	57%

“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 Middleville, Michigan five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Middleville, 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, Middleville, Michigan itself moved −13.2 points in standing on average over the same 9 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

4,380 residents (±19)

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

1,660 households (±165)

Middleville, Michigan
Michigan share

Under $25k9.9%†165
$25k–50k18%†293
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,660 households (±165)

Middleville, Michigan
Michigan share

Own78%1,303
Rent22%†357

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

2,234 workers (±212)

Middleville, Michigan
Michigan share

Drive alone79%1,774
Carpool5.4%†121
Public transit0.0%0

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 Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, 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 Barry County, the county holding most of Middleville's residents.

Barry County has 965 employer establishments, 151 for every 10,000 residents (0.61× the US rate of 248; 0.66× Michigan's), with 11,546 paid employees at an average annual pay of $47,301. The Census Bureau also counts 4,418 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 965; 4,418 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 151; US 248 · Michigan 228
Paid employees: 11,546
Average annual pay: $47,301; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	104	16.3	1.05×About typical	457	$51,249	457
Restaurants and other eating places	64	10	0.55×Fewer than typical	1,267	$16,353	10
Ambulatory health care services	60	9.4	0.45×Fewer than typical	524	$59,660	153
Religious organizations	43	6.7	1.21×About typical	295	$23,105	—
Construction of buildings	39	6.1	0.81×About typical	108	$45,602	288
Services to buildings and dwellings	39	6.1	0.91×About typical	310	$38,387	277
Full-service restaurants	37	5.8	0.75×Fewer than typical	645	$16,388	5
Building equipment contractors	36	5.6	0.94×About typical	173	$49,705	56
Automotive repair and maintenance	34	5.3	1.06×About typical	141	$47,199	76
Truck transportation	29	4.5	0.90×About typical	98	$63,551	68
Foundation, structure and building exterior contractors	26	4.1	1.29×More than typical	119	$53,361	84
Offices of physicians	24	3.8	0.58×Fewer than typical	299	$68,334	16

Rank places for an industry Open Barry County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 63,849 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

No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.

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

See federal money in Barry 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.

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

House

John R. MoolenaarR-MI-2 · 100% of residentsWith party 98%Missed 0.3%

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.

Barry County62100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI80

Other cities and towns in Barry 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
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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