Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town settled in 1868, now home to 2,013 people.
Hersey Township’s best subject grades are a B+ for cost of living and the outdoors; its weakest is a C− for incomes. Only 70 of Michigan’s 1,279 towns score lower on hazard risk. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 74% of U.S. towns. Hersey Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Where Hersey Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2021
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Michigan), ordered by how far Hersey Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 472 in 1880, 347 in 2020. The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 1900 and 2 maps from 1959 on.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Hersey 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.
Ordered by what stands out in Hersey Township.
Just over four in five adults had a checkup this year in Hersey Township, where Michigan’s towns sit at 80% and U.S. towns at 79%. For adults here, the share who report frequent physical distress is 17%. Two figures for adults locally: 18% smoke cigarettes, 40% have high blood pressure.
| Hersey Township | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 14% | 14% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 15% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 36% | 35% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 12% | 12% |
| What stands out | Hersey Township | MI |
|---|---|---|
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 13.5% | 10.2% |
| More adults with COPD | 10.6% | 8.1% |
| More adults with heart disease | 8.9% | 7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lighthouse Academy Eagle VillageLargest public high schoolGrades K–12 | Grades K–12 | 32 | D |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within MI on state tests and graduation
6.9% of workers do their job from home in Hersey Township, below both Michigan’s towns (10%) and U.S. towns (11%). Only 3% of working residents stay in Hersey Township for work; the rest commute out. Employers in Hersey Township added 113 jobs between 2011 and 2021, to 328. Its middle household income comes in at $62,000.
| Hersey Township | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Work from home | 6.9% | 10% | 11% |
| Median household income | $62,000 | $77,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 13% | 8.9% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2021 · ACS
Typical home values rose 7.8% in the year to September 2026. 86% of Hersey Township households own their home.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
69% of Hersey Township’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by cold waves at 10%. Since 2014, one flood insurance claim has been paid here.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
A winter brings about 61 inches of snow, with January nights at 13° and July afternoons at 82°.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
In 1 park or preserve, walkers have 8.1 miles of trail. Parks and preserves in Hersey Township: one, of 1,148 acres. The town’s trail density stands at 0.2 miles per square mile.
| Hersey Township | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 9.2% | 4.4% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.2 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Pere Marquette State Forest - Cadillac Unit | 2.7 mi | 1,148 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
1 within 15 miles of the center of Hersey Township
About 2 of every 100 Hersey Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Michigan.
Village in Michigan, United States
Hersey is a village in Osceola County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 347 at the 2020 census. The village is located within Hersey Township.
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6 towns share a border with Hersey Township.
| Town | MI rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hersey Township · Hersey | — | — | B+ | — | B | C− |
| Richmond Township | — | — | A− | — | B | C− |
| Cedar Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Evart Township | — | — | A− | — | C | D |
| Grant Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Green Township | #557 | C | A− | — | B | C |
Hersey Township, Richmond Township and Evart Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Hersey Township, Richmond Township, Evart Township and Green Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Cedar Township and Grant Township aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Hersey and Hersey Township are one community, graded once. Compare Hersey Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Not for the area. That is 3.5 years of the area's median household income ($58,267 across the county). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B+.