Fremont TownshipMI
A town of 1,971.
Is Fremont Township a good place to live?
Fremont Township’s best subject grades are a B+ for schools and a B for civic life; its weakest is a D− for walkability. Only 73 of Michigan’s 1,279 towns score lower on walkability. Fremont Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
99% of working residents leave Fremont Township for work
Where Fremont Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2021
How Fremont Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Michigan), ordered by how far Fremont Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Fremont Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Fremont Township, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 12, 2025.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Fremont Township.
Most of Fremont Township’s workers commute out: the town has 0.0 jobs for each of them
Most working residents leave Fremont Township for work: only 1% work in town. Fremont Township’s average trip to work is 31 minutes, above both the Michigan town median (25 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes). The median household income in Fremont Township is $108,000.
| Fremont Township | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 31 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $108,000 | $77,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 16% | 10% | 11% |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.9% | 5.9% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2021 · ACS
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. John Lutheran School PrivateLargest elementary schoolGrades PK–8 | Grades PK–8 | 29 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within MI on state tests and graduation
Fremont Township has snowy winters and pleasant summers
Fremont Township has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 83°, January nights drop to 16° and about 49 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Fewer children than Michigan overall
On this, Fremont Township is against 21% in Michigan’s towns and 22% across U.S. towns. Children under 18 are 15% of residents (21% statewide); people 65 and older are 24% of residents (19% statewide). Fremont Township’s median age is 47.9 years.
| Fremont Township | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 18 | 15% | 21% | 22% |
| Median age | 47.9 years | 42.5 years | 40.5 years |
| Aged 65 or older | 24% | 19% | 18% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 23% | 26% | 29% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
46% women, 54% men
About 119 men for every 100 women (the survey’s margin: ±2.7 points). Across Michigan, 50.4% of residents are women.
| Fremont Township | MI | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 8.6% | 11.2% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 6.6% | 10.1% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 10.2% | 9.2% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 10.5% | 13.2% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 10.4% | 12.2% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 14.4% | 12% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 14.9% | 13.6% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 13.7% | 11.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 10.7% | 7.4% | 7% |
| No diploma | 9% | 7.9% | 10.4% |
| High school | 33.2% | 28% | 26% |
| Some college | 24.9% | 21.9% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 9.7% | 9.8% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 13.5% | 19.7% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 9.6% | 12.7% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 2,000, single groups can be off by several points
Fremont Township faces a moderate natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 56% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
On CDC estimates, Fremont Township is less healthy than 51% of U.S. towns
Fremont Township beats the Michigan average on 4 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 2. 38% of adults have high blood pressure in Fremont Township.
| Fremont Township | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 38% | 36% | 35% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 33% | 34% | 36% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 27% | 23% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 81% | 80% | 79% |
| What stands out | Fremont Township | MI |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 9.4% | 11.9% |
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 7.1% | 8.7% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.6% | 8.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
USS Edson and 14 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Fremont Township. Close and well known come first.
26 mi MuseumUSS Edson
19 mi GardenDow Gardens
36 mi MuseumSloan Museum
17 mi GardenChippewa Nature Center
26 mi MuseumSaginaw Valley Naval Ship Museum15 mi Zoo & aquariumChildren's Zoo at Celebration SquarePhoto credits
USS Edson: U.S. Navy, Public domain · Dow Gardens: Chris.Schiemann, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Sloan Museum: Amancour, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Chippewa Nature Center: Christian Collins, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Saginaw Valley Naval Ship Museum: John McCullough, CC BY-SA 2.5
_underway_off_Long_Beach,_California_(USA),_circa_in_the_mid-1960s.jpg){kind=link}
.jpg){kind=link}
Everything we know about Fremont Township
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Fremont Township; the nearest are
About 5 of every 100 Fremont Township residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Michigan.
About Fremont Township
Civil township in Michigan, United States
Fremont Township is a civil township of Saginaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,998 at the 2020 Census.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 37 sq mi
- Elevation
- 623 ft
Fremont Township’s neighbors
4 towns share a border with Fremont Township.
| Town | MI rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fremont Township | — | — | C | — | B+ | B− |
| Swan Creek Township | — | — | C+ | — | A− | C+ |
| Lakefield Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Brant Township | — | — | B+ | — | B | C |
| Richland Township | #356 | B− | C | B+ | B+ | B |
Fremont Township, Swan Creek Township and Brant Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Fremont Township, Swan Creek Township and Brant Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Lakefield Township isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Fremont Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Fremont Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Fremont Township, MI expensive?
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.