Wright TownshipMI
A town of 1,600.
Is Wright Township a good place to live?
The best of Wright Township’s subject grades is an A− for cost of living; the weakest is a C− for schools. On the outdoors, just 9 of Michigan’s 1,279 towns do worse. Wright Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
95% of working residents leave Wright Township for work
Where Wright Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2021
How Wright Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Michigan), ordered by how far Wright Township is from typical.
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Moving to Wright Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Wright 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 Wright Township.
Wright Township’s public schools trail 85% of Michigan districts
Its one school is below. Enrollment at Wright Township’s public school: 205 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waldron Area SchoolsLargest public high schoolGrades K–12 | Grades K–12 | 205 | D |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within MI on state tests and graduation
On CDC estimates, Wright Township is less healthy than 84% of U.S. towns
30% of Wright Township adults have been diagnosed with depression. Wright Township: 20% of adults smoke cigarettes.
| Wright Township | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 15% | 14% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 27% | 23% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 14% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 41% | 36% | 35% |
| What stands out | Wright Township | MI |
|---|---|---|
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 14.4% | 10.2% |
| More adults with COPD | 11% | 8.1% |
| More smokers | 19.5% | 14.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Most of Wright Township’s workers commute out: the town has 0.2 jobs for each of them
The average commute for Wright Township comes to 29 minutes, where Michigan’s towns sit at 25 minutes and U.S. towns at 25 minutes. Just 5% of the town’s working residents have a job in town. For Wright Township, the middle household income is $54,000. Between 2011 and 2021, jobs in Wright Township dropped by 77, to 100.
| Wright Township | Michigan towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $54,000 | $77,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 11% | 8.9% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 5% | 5.9% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2021 · ACS
The biggest natural risk in Wright Township is inland flooding, at a low overall level
The FEMA hazard score for Wright Township comes to 31 of 100, against 25 of 100 in Michigan’s towns and 44 of 100 across U.S. towns. Paid flood insurance claims locally since 2013: 3. Expected losses in Wright Township break down as 55% from inland flooding and 21% from tornadoes.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Four seasons and pleasant summers: that is Wright Township’s year
In July, afternoons reach 83°; in January, nights fall to 17°, and about 33 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Everything we know about Wright Township
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Wright Township; the nearest are
About 1 of every 100 Wright Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Michigan.
About Wright Township
Civil township in Michigan, United States
Wright Township is a civil township of Hillsdale County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,542 at the 2020 census.
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- Area
- 44 sq mi
- Elevation
- 909 ft
Wright Township’s neighbors
5 towns share a border with Wright Township.
| Town | MI rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wright Township | — | — | A− | — | C− | C− |
| Pittsford Township | — | — | B− | — | C− | C− |
| Medina Township | — | — | B+ | — | C | D |
| Ransom Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Amboy Township | — | — | B | — | C | D− |
Wright Township, Pittsford Township, Medina Township and Amboy Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Wright Township, Pittsford Township, Medina Township and Amboy Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Ransom Township isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Wright Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Wright Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Wright 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−.