Milan
A small city on the county line, fifteen minutes down US-23
Milan is a city of 6,079 people at the 2020 census, and the fact that shapes everything else about it is that the county line runs through the middle of town: part of Milan is in Washtenaw County and part is in Monroe County. That is not a technicality. It decides which county records the deed and which county's offices an address falls under. Current city property taxes are billed through the City of Milan's treasury either way, though a delinquent bill passes to the county the parcel sits in. Two houses a few streets apart can answer that question differently, so it is settled before anything else here, not after.
The place was settled as early as 1831, incorporated as a village in 1885, and only became a city in 1967 — a long village history that is still legible downtown. The Main Street Historic District, listed on the National Register in 1999, covers the commercial blocks on East and West Main. The Friend–Hack House on County Street, an 1888 Stick/Eastlake house listed in 1991, is now a museum run by the Milan Area Historical Society. Outside the old center the housing is largely mid-century and later, on a scale that keeps the whole city walkable.
Milan Area Schools serves the city from six buildings and crosses the county line the same way the city does. US-23 runs south to north along the eastern edge as a four-lane freeway, which puts Ann Arbor about fifteen minutes north and Toledo a straight run south — the reason a lot of buyers priced out of Ann Arbor end up looking here. The federal correctional institution people associate with Milan is mostly in York Township rather than in the city itself.
Milan right now.
18 homes for sale in Milan. 34 sales, median $342K closed in the last 90 days.
Too few sales in six months for a median.
- This week1 went under contract
| Month | Sales | Median |
|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | 10 | $358K |
| Jun 2026 | 12 | $458K |
| Jul 2026 | 11 | $340K |
| Aug 2026 | 18 | $349K |
| Sep 2026 | 7 | $295K |
| Oct 2026 | 4 | too few sales |
A faded month had fewer than 5 sales, too few for a median.
How these are counted
The columns are houses and condos. Small multi-family, manufactured homes and the subtypes the feed leaves unplaceable are counted in the total above and in neither column, so the two columns do not add up to it. Land and farms are left out. “Over asking” means above the price a home was last listed at, not its original price, and is taken over the sales that carried one. Price per square foot divides by above-grade finished area where the MLS reports it and by the total finished area where it does not; each figure is labelled with the one it used, so two figures labelled differently are not measuring the same thing. Below 5 sales a figure gives the count without a median, and a single sale is given no figure at all.
Neighborhoods & subdivisions
Grouped by the government a home answers to. City taxes, township taxes and village government are three different bills, and a Milan mailing address can sit under any of them. Recorded plats are not everyday neighborhood names, so check jurisdiction and school assignment by address, not by heading.
Thinking about Milan?
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