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Mount Clemens grades D overall, ranked 636th of 697 in Michigan, mostly because of schools and health. Its public schools trail 90% of Michigan towns on state tests and graduation. CDC estimates put its residents' health behind 85% of the country. One bright spot: it has 21 miles of trail. Mount Clemens’ trail density is 5.1 miles per square mile, against 0.3 in Michigan’s towns and 0.4 across U.S. towns. On history, just 113 of Michigan’s 1,279 towns do better. The biggest park or preserve is Sleepy Hollow Nature Preserve, at 51 acres.
Where Mount Clemens beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
Grand Trunk Western Railroad, Mount Clemens Station| School | Grades | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Prevail Academy | K–8 | 534 |
| Seminole Academy | PK–5 | 407 |
| Mt Clemens Montessori Academy | PK–5 | 278 |
3.3% of the town is conserved land, across 11 parks and preserves.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Michigan), ordered by how far Mount Clemens is from typical.
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Its founding year, 1799, comes before those of 99% of the Michigan towns we grade with a known year.
Census counts: 1,302 in 1850, a peak of 21,016 in 1960, 15,697 in 2020. The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 1880 and 6 maps from 1929 on.
2 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Mount Clemens. Close and well known come first.
Big draw20 mi Stadium & arenaFord Field
20 mi Stadium & arenaComerica Park
15 mi LakeLake Saint Clair
20 mi TheatreFox Theatre
27 mi MuseumThe Henry Ford1.8M visitors a year
19 mi MuseumDetroit Institute of ArtsFord Field: Unknown, CC BY 2.5 · Comerica Park: City of Detroit, Public domain · Lake Saint Clair: Copernicus Sentinel-2, ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo · Fox Theatre: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0 · The Henry Ford: Alvintrusty, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Detroit Institute of Arts: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Mount Clemens, 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 Mount Clemens.
Mount Clemens draws workers from Clinton Township and beyond, has more trail for its size than nearly any town in Michigan and is healthier than towns with similar incomes.
At 5.1 miles of trail per square mile, it ranks #3 of 590 Michigan towns.
21 miles of trail in 11 parks and preserves.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Sleepy Hollow Nature Preserve | — | 51 |
| 2. Shadyside Park | 0.1 mi | 27 |
| 3. Cairns Field | — | 6 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Two of its 8 schools are below, each with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prevail AcademyLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–8 | Grades K–8 | 534 | C− |
| Mount Clemens High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 239 | C− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within MI on state tests and graduation
11,220 jobs are based in Mount Clemens, 1.8 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in. Jobs based here fell from 15,197 in 2011 to 11,220.
Most working residents leave Mount Clemens for work: only 8% work in town. 16% of Mount Clemens residents live below the poverty line, where Michigan’s towns sit at 8.9% and U.S. towns at 9.6%. Mount Clemens’ median household income is $52,000.
| Mount Clemens | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 16% | 8.9% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $52,000 | $77,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 8.4% | 10% | 11% |
| Average trip to work | 27 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2021 · ACS
Against the 6,568 U.S. towns with household incomes like Mount Clemens’s, it is less healthy than 68%, so its D isn’t only a matter of income.
41% of adults sleep under 7 hours in Mount Clemens. Mount Clemens beats the Michigan average on 1 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 15. 19% of adults smoke cigarettes in Mount Clemens.
| Mount Clemens | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 41% | 34% | 36% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 15% | 14% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 42% | 37% | 35% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 14% | 14% |
| What stands out | Mount Clemens | MI |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 8% | 8.9% |
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 14.9% | 10.2% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
At 2.3 years of the Detroit metro’s $77K median household income, the typical home (about $174K) costs less against local pay than in 90% of Michigan towns; that ratio is one input to its B for cost of living.
The typical Mount Clemens home is worth about $174,000, up 0.8% in a year, 34% below the Michigan typical home. 59% of Mount Clemens households own their home.
| Mount Clemens | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 59% | 84% | 73% |
| Median rent | $847 a month | $1,047 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Mount Clemens has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 83°, January nights drop to 19° and about 32 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 66% of U.S. communities. Since 1979, 41 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Mount Clemens.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
4 within 15 miles of the center of Mount Clemens
About 4 of every 100 Mount Clemens residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Michigan.
Where Mount Clemens’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2021
32 notable people were born in Mount Clemens.
City in Michigan, United States
Mount Clemens is a city in, and the county seat of, Macomb County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 15,697 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Detroit metropolitan area.
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2 towns share a border with Mount Clemens.
| Town | MI rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Clemens | #636 | D | B | — | D | D |
| Clinton Township | #440 | C+ | C+ | C | A− | C+ |
| Harrison Township | #471 | C+ | C+ | — | B+ | C+ |
Mount Clemens and Harrison Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Mount Clemens with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Mount Clemens grades D overall, better than 14% of U.S. towns and #636 of 697 in Michigan. It grades D for health and D for schools. Schools is its weak spot, with a D.
That is 2.3 years of the area's median household income ($76,664 across the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B.
32 notable people were born here, including Adrienne Frantz and Allen Henry Vigneron.
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