Montcalm TownshipMI
A town of 3,532.
Is Montcalm Township a good place to live?
Montcalm Township gives you more for your money than most places: homes are within reach, about $211K for a typical one, or 2.5 years of the Grand Rapids metro’s $83K median household income. It grades B overall, 339th among Michigan's 697 graded towns. On the plus side, its schools outperform 78% of the state's. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 95% of U.S. towns. Only 8 of the 701 Michigan towns we compare have a lower share of working residents who work in town than Montcalm Township. The biggest park or preserve is Carl Paepke Flat River Nature Park, at 46 acres.
What makes Montcalm Township stand out
Where Montcalm Township beats most towns.
99% of working residents leave Montcalm Township for work
Where Montcalm Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2021
How Montcalm Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Michigan), ordered by how far Montcalm Township is from typical.
Its grades run from A for cost of living (better than 89% of comparable towns) to D− for walkability (better than 5%), so the B overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Montcalm Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Montcalm 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 Montcalm Township.
Montcalm Township pairs an A− for schools with modest home prices and sends most of its workers to Grand Rapids and beyond.
Inland flooding leads a very low hazard risk in Montcalm Township
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 85% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
For schools, Montcalm Township earns an A−
Its A− for schools comes with an A for cost of living: the typical home is worth about $211K.
Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Grove Amish Parochial School PrivateLargest elementary schoolGrades 1–8 | Grades 1–8 | 22 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within MI on state tests and graduation
Most working residents commute out of Montcalm Township
Montcalm Township has 221 jobs for its 1,353 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. Jobs based here fell from 459 in 2011 to 221.
Most working residents leave Montcalm Township for work: only 1% work in town. 15% of residents live below the poverty line in Montcalm Township, where Michigan’s towns sit at 8.9% and U.S. towns at 9.6%. Jobs based in Montcalm Township fell to 221 in 2021, 238 fewer than in 2011.
| Montcalm Township | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 15% | 8.9% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $71,000 | $77,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2021 · ACS
Montcalm Township is less healthy than 72% of U.S. towns
Montcalm Township beats the Michigan average on 0 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 3. 29% of adults have been diagnosed with depression in Montcalm Township, above both the Michigan town median (27%) and the median of U.S. towns (23%). 18% of adults smoke cigarettes in Montcalm Township.
| Montcalm Township | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 27% | 23% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 15% | 14% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 37% | 35% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 14% | 14% |
| What stands out | Montcalm Township | MI |
|---|---|---|
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 13.2% | 10.2% |
| More smokers | 17.6% | 14.6% |
| More adults with COPD | 9.6% | 8.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
In Montcalm Township, expect snowy winters and pleasant summers
Montcalm Township has cold, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 82°, January nights drop to 15° and about 73 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Montcalm Township has set aside 3.7% of its land for conservation
1.9 miles of trail in 4 parks and preserves. The trail density in Montcalm Township is 0.1 miles per square mile.
| Montcalm Township | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 3.7% | 4.4% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Carl Paepke Flat River Nature Park | — | 46 |
| 2. Montcalm Township Park | — | 40 |
| 3. McCarthy Park | — | 29 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Montcalm Township
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Montcalm Township
About 6 of every 100 Montcalm Township residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Michigan.
About Montcalm Township
Township in Michigan, United States
Montcalm Township is a civil township of Montcalm County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,394 at the 2020 census, up from 3,350 in 2010.
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- Area
- 36 sq mi
- Elevation
- 889 ft
Montcalm Township’s neighbors
7 towns share a border with Montcalm Township.
| Town | MI rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montcalm Township | #339 | B | A | — | A− | C |
| Sidney Township | #602 | C− | A− | — | C+ | C− |
| Eureka Township | #110 | A | A | — | A− | C |
| Spencer Township | #316 | B | B | — | B+ | C+ |
| Greenville | #413 | B− | A− | C− | A− | C |
| Pine Township | — | — | A− | — | B | C− |
| Douglass Township | — | — | A− | — | B− | C− |
| Fairplain Township | — | — | A− | — | B+ | C− |
Pine Township, Douglass Township and Fairplain Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Montcalm Township, Sidney Township, Eureka Township, Spencer Township, Pine Township, Douglass Township and Fairplain Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Montcalm Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Montcalm Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Montcalm Township, MI a good place to live?
By most measures, yes. Montcalm Township grades B overall, better than 57% of U.S. towns and #339 of 697 in Michigan. It grades C for health and A− for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a D−.
Is Montcalm Township, MI expensive?
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A.