Montrose TownshipMI
A town of 5,896, settled in 1899.
Is Montrose Township a good place to live?
Montrose Township grades C+ overall, 435th among Michigan's 697 graded towns, with clear strengths and some subjects that lag. Crime is low: it reports less per resident than 83% of U.S. towns. On the other side, residents are less healthy than 84% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 82% of U.S. towns. 17% of residents are under 18 in Montrose Township, below both Michigan’s towns (21%) and U.S. towns (22%). Barber Memorial Park, at 41 acres with 1.3 miles of trail, is the biggest park or preserve.
What makes Montrose Township stand out
Where Montrose Township beats most towns.
97% of working residents leave Montrose Township for work
Where Montrose Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2021
How Montrose Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Michigan), ordered by how far Montrose Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Montrose Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Montrose 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 Montrose Township.
Montrose Township sends most of its workers to Flint and beyond and gets more snow than most of the country, though not than most of Michigan; it also scores below Vienna Township and its other neighbors on health.
Montrose Township earns a C− for health
All 5 graded neighbors score healthier than that grade, from Vienna Township (C) to Flushing Township (B−).
29% of adults get no exercise outside work in Montrose Township. Two figures for adults here: 19% smoke cigarettes, 29% have been diagnosed with depression.
| Montrose Township | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 18% | 17% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 15% | 14% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 27% | 23% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 36% | 32% | 33% |
| What stands out | Montrose Township | MI |
|---|---|---|
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 14.5% | 10.2% |
| More adults with COPD | 10.8% | 8.1% |
| More smokers | 19.2% | 14.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Montrose Township earns an A− for safety
Violent crime is rare: 6 reported in 2025, 0.8 per 1,000 residents.
The rate of thefts and burglaries for Montrose Township comes to 3.9 per 1,000 residents. The level of violent crime for Montrose Township comes to 0.8 per 1,000 residents.
| Montrose Township | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 3.9 per 1,000 residents | 8 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.8 per 1,000 residents | 1.9 | 1.6 |
Violent crime per 1,000 residents
Property crime per 1,000 residents
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Montrose Township sends most of its workers out of town
Montrose Township has 587 jobs for its 2,408 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. Jobs based here grew from 364 in 2011 to 587.
Most people who work leave Montrose Township to do it: just 3% work in town. Jobs in Montrose Township grew by 223 from 2011 to 2021, reaching 587. The top destinations are Flint (9%), Flint Township (7%) and Montrose (4%). Half the trips to work are shorter than 20 miles.
| Montrose Township | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Work from home | 7.4% | 10% | 11% |
| Working residents who work in town | 3.4% | 5.9% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 10% | 8.9% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2021 · ACS
Top of a low hazard risk in Montrose Township: inland flooding
Compared with 72% of U.S. communities, expected storm and flood damage in Montrose Township is lower. FEMA puts 45% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 24% to tornadoes.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Montrose Township: snowy winters and pleasant summers
The Flint 7w weather station, 11 miles away, records that 40 inches of snow fall in a normal winter: more than most of the country, but less than 79% of Michigan places with climate records.
July afternoons reach 83° and January nights drop to 16°.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
2.3% of the land in Montrose Township is protected from building
Trails total 1.9 miles in 2 parks and preserves. In Montrose Township, the trail density is 0.1 miles per square mile.
| Montrose Township | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 2.3% | 4.4% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Barber Memorial Park | 1.3 mi | 41 |
| 2. Montrose Orchards | — | 12 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
USS Edson and 14 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Montrose Township. Close and well known come first.
30 mi MuseumUSS Edson
15 mi MuseumSloan Museum13 mi MuseumCrossroads Village (Michigan)
36 mi GardenDow Gardens
15 mi MuseumFlint Institute of Arts
30 mi MuseumSaginaw Valley Naval Ship MuseumPhoto credits
USS Edson: U.S. Navy, Public domain · Sloan Museum: Amancour, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Dow Gardens: Chris.Schiemann, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Flint Institute of Arts: Blueskiesfalling at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Saginaw Valley Naval Ship Museum: John McCullough, CC BY-SA 2.5
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Everything we know about Montrose Township
Colleges nearby
3 within 15 miles of the center of Montrose Township
About 3 of every 100 Montrose Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Michigan.
About Montrose Township
City in Michigan, United States
Montrose is a city in Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,743 at the 2020 census. Once part of the surrounding Montrose Township, the city itself incorporated in 1980, and both are now administered autonomously. It is part of the Flint metropolitan area.
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- Established
- 1899
- Area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Elevation
- 673 ft
- ZIP code
- 48457
Montrose Township’s neighbors
6 towns share a border with Montrose Township.
| Town | MI rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montrose Township | #435 | C+ | B− | A− | B− | C− |
| Taymouth Township | #446 | C+ | B+ | — | B− | C+ |
| Flushing Township | #416 | B− | C+ | A | B | B− |
| Maple Grove Township | #485 | C+ | C+ | — | A− | C |
| Burt | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Vienna Township | #597 | C− | B− | — | C+ | C |
| Albee Township | — | — | B− | — | B+ | C |
Albee Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Taymouth Township, Maple Grove Township, Vienna Township and Albee Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Burt isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Montrose Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Montrose Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Montrose Township, MI a good place to live?
Montrose Township grades C+ overall, better than 45% of U.S. towns and #435 of 697 in Michigan. It grades C− for health, A− for safety and B− for schools. Health is its weak spot, with a C−.
Is Montrose 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−.