Mills TownshipMI
A town of 1,807.
Is Mills Township a good place to live?
Mills Township’s best subject grade is an A for schools; its weakest is a D for walkability. Mills Township’s average trip to work is 34 minutes, above both the Michigan town median (25 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes). On this, Mills Township is above both the Michigan town median (4.4%) and the median of U.S. towns (4.3%). On history, just 11 of Michigan’s 1,279 towns do worse. Mills Township Park, at 154 acres with 1 miles of trail, is the biggest park or preserve. Mills Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
99% of working residents leave Mills Township for work
Where Mills Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2021
How Mills Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Michigan), ordered by how far Mills Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Mills Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Mills 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 Mills Township.
About two in five of Mills Township’s working residents commute to Midland
Most working residents leave Mills Township for work: only 1% work in town. Since 2011, Mills Township has added 357 jobs, to 417 in 2021. 7.1% of Mills Township workers work from home.
| Mills Township | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 7.1% | 10% | 11% |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.5% | 5.9% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 12% | 8.9% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $72,000 | $77,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2021 · ACS
Mills Township has snowy winters and pleasant summers
Mills Township has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 82°, January nights drop to 15° and about 49 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Residents of Mills Township are healthier than 66% of U.S. towns
Mills Township beats the Michigan average on 4 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 0. 31% of adults sleep under 7 hours in Mills Township.
| Mills Township | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 34% | 36% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 32% | 33% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 27% | 23% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 22% | 25% | 25% |
| What stands out | Mills Township | MI |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 12.1% | 15.4% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 9.4% | 11.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Inland flooding leads a low hazard risk in Mills Township
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 64% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Mills Township has set aside 10.8% of its land for conservation
8.2 miles of trail in 2 parks and preserves.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Au Sable State Forest - Gladwin Unit | 3.1 mi | 3,940 |
| 2. Mills Township Park | 1 mi | 154 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
USS Edson and 10 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Mills Township. Close and well known come first.
22 mi MuseumUSS Edson
11 mi GardenDow Gardens
13 mi GardenChippewa Nature Center
22 mi MuseumSaginaw Valley Naval Ship Museum
28 mi TheatreTemple Theatre29 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 · Chippewa Nature Center: Christian Collins, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Saginaw Valley Naval Ship Museum: John McCullough, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Temple Theatre: Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Everything we know about Mills Township
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Mills Township
About 5 of every 100 Mills Township residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Michigan.
About Mills Township
Civil township in Michigan, United States
Mills Township is a civil township of Midland County in the U.S. state of Michigan, United States. The population was 1,775 at the 2020 census, down from 1,939 in 2010.
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- Area
- 36 sq mi
- Elevation
- 676 ft
Mills Township’s neighbors
4 towns share a border with Mills Township.
| Town | MI rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mills Township | — | — | B | — | A | B+ |
| Hope Township | — | — | B− | — | B+ | B− |
| Bentley Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Larkin Township | #40 | A | B− | — | A | A− |
| Garfield Township | — | — | A− | — | B | C+ |
Mills Township, Hope Township and Garfield Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Mills Township, Hope Township, Larkin Township and Garfield Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Bentley Township isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Mills Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Mills Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Mills 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 B.