Mount Haley TownshipMI
A town of 1,600, settled in 1879.
Is Mount Haley Township a good place to live?
The best of Mount Haley Township’s subject grades is an A for cost of living; the weakest is a D− for walkability. On walkability, just 45 of Michigan’s 1,279 towns do worse. Mount Haley Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
100% of working residents leave Mount Haley Township for work
Where Mount Haley Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2021
How Mount Haley Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Michigan), ordered by how far Mount Haley Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Mount Haley Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Mount Haley 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 Mount Haley Township.
Fewer of Mount Haley Township’s working residents work locally than in the typical Michigan or U.S. town
0.3% of Mount Haley Township working residents work locally, where Michigan’s towns sit at 5.9% and U.S. towns at 8%. Since 2011, Mount Haley Township has added 127 jobs, to 151 in 2021. The average trip to work in Mount Haley Township is 31 minutes.
| Mount Haley Township | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 31 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.3% | 5.9% | 8% |
| Work from home | 8% | 10% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 8% | 8.9% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2021 · ACS
In Mount Haley Township, expect snowy winters and pleasant summers
Mount Haley Township has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 83°, January nights drop to 16° and about 49 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Mount Haley Township faces a moderate natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 55% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Residents of Mount Haley Township are healthier than 53% of U.S. towns
On this, Mount Haley Township is below both the Michigan town median (34%) and the median of U.S. towns (36%). Mount Haley Township beats the Michigan average on 4 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 33% of Mount Haley Township adults have obesity.
| Mount Haley Township | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 34% | 36% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 33% | 37% | 35% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 27% | 23% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 32% | 33% |
| What stands out | Mount Haley Township | MI |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 9.8% | 11.9% |
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 7.5% | 8.7% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.1% | 8.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
1.6% of Mount Haley Township is conserved land
1.4 miles of trail in 0 parks and preserves. Mount Haley Township’s trail density is 0.1 miles per square mile.
| Mount Haley Township | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 1.6% | 4.4% | 4.3% |
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 Mount Haley Township. Close and well known come first.
24 mi MuseumUSS Edson
8 mi GardenDow Gardens
6 mi GardenChippewa Nature Center
24 mi MuseumSaginaw Valley Naval Ship Museum20 mi Zoo & aquariumChildren's Zoo at Celebration Square
20 mi TheatreTemple TheatrePhoto 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
_underway_off_Long_Beach,_California_(USA),_circa_in_the_mid-1960s.jpg){kind=link}
.jpg){kind=link}
Everything we know about Mount Haley Township
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Mount Haley Township
About 5 of every 100 Mount Haley Township residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Michigan.
About Mount Haley Township
Civil township in Michigan, United States
Mount Haley Township is a civil township of Midland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,609 at the 2020 census.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 24 sq mi
- Elevation
- 666 ft
Mount Haley Township’s neighbors
3 towns share a border with Mount Haley Township.
| Town | MI rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Haley Township | — | — | A | — | C+ | B− |
| Ingersoll Township | #19 | A+ | A | — | A | B+ |
| Homer Township | #101 | A | A | — | A | B+ |
| Jonesfield Township | — | — | B | — | C+ | C |
Mount Haley Township and Jonesfield Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Mount Haley Township, Ingersoll Township, Homer Township and Jonesfield Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Mount Haley Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Mount Haley Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Mount Haley 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.