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One subscription. Every county in Michigan. See new obituaries as they're published, the relatives named in them, and possible property matches where available. That gives investors, agents, trust managers, skip tracers and proptech teams an earlier start on their research. Relatives named in an obituary are not a legal determination of heirs. $249 a month per state after a 5-day free trial. Pull all counties or filter to a single county with county_slug.

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Michigan Death & Obituary Data

Aggregate metrics from ObituaryMonitor's eligible Daily County Intelligence notice universe: not official vital statistics.

1,910

Deaths detected in the last 7 days

6,687

Deaths detected in the last 30 days

525

Active sources monitored (30 days)

95

Counties with recent activity

4 hours ago

Latest snapshot refresh

Data updated 4 hours ago

Michigan Death Data by County

95 counties with recent activity

Explore recent death and obituary activity detected across supported counties. Search the coverage table below to see where eligible Daily County Intelligence records have been detected during the last 30 days.

County30-day recordsSourcesLatest activityStatus
Wayne County75977TodayActive
Oakland County47142TodayActive
Macomb County46937TodayActive
Kent County32326TodayActive
Ingham County23015TodayActive
Monroe County1828TodayActive
St. Clair County17511TodayActive
Saginaw County16417TodayActive
Lenawee County1469TodayActive
Bay County13912TodayActive
Berrien County13715TodayActive
Cass County1349TodayActive
Shiawassee County1337TodayActive
Clare County1236TodayActive
Muskegon County11812TodayActive

Recent Deaths Detected Across Michigan

Counts of death and obituary records detected by ObituaryMonitor, not official state mortality totals.

Last 7 days

1,910

Previous 7 days: 1,637 · +17% vs prior period

Last 30 days

6,687

Previous 30 days: 8,306 · -19% vs prior period

These figures represent records detected by ObituaryMonitor and should not be interpreted as official state mortality statistics.

What Michigan Death & Obituary Records Can Include

Field availability across recent eligible Michigan Daily County Intelligence records (trailing 30 days).

Name

100%

of recent Michigan records

Date of death

100%

of recent Michigan records

City / location

99.8%

of recent Michigan records

County

100%

of recent Michigan records

Source URL

100%

of recent Michigan records

Funeral home / publisher

100%

of recent Michigan records

Notice text read

96.7%

of recent Michigan records

Where ObituaryMonitor Detects Michigan Death & Obituary Data

Cities with recent eligible activity (not a complete list of every community).

Detroit235Grand Rapids155Shelby Township144Saginaw119Lansing100Bay City90Dowagiac79Rogers City78Warren75Monroe74Joseph73Southfield72

Michigan Funeral Homes & Obituary Sources

ObituaryMonitor monitors funeral homes and obituary sources across Michigan to detect newly published death and obituary information. Eligible records become available through Daily County Intelligence. Listing a source here does not imply a partnership.

Browse Michigan Funeral Homes →

How Michigan Daily County Intelligence Works

  1. ObituaryMonitor monitors 17,565+ funeral-home and newspaper sources.
  2. New death records are detected and normalized.
  3. Geographic information is assigned where supported.
  4. Eligible Michigan records become available through Daily County Intelligence.
  5. Customers receive new records through API, CSV, or portal delivery.

Data is continuously collected from monitored sources, not sold as a static list.

Access Michigan Death Data Your Way

API

Receive eligible Michigan death and obituary records programmatically in JSON.

Explore the Daily County Intelligence →

CSV

Download or export records for operational workflows and CRM import.

Web Portal

Review and filter new Michigan records through the ObituaryMonitor portal.

Who Uses Michigan Death Data?

Real Estate Investors

Monitor newly detected deaths across every county in Michigan for potential probate or inherited-property research.

Probate & Legal Services

Identify recent deaths within geographic service areas and support downstream estate workflows.

Financial Institutions

Use death signals as an additional input in deceased-customer and risk-monitoring processes. Financial institutions monitoring

Data & Software Companies

Integrate normalized death and obituary data into software products and operational systems.

Research / Operations

Monitor county-level death events without manually checking individual obituary websites.

Example Michigan Death Data API Record

Illustrative sample record, not an actual person.

{
  "id": "fh-sample",
  "full_name": "Sample Person",
  "first_name": "Sample",
  "last_name": "Person",
  "date_of_death": "2026-08-08",
  "state": "MI",
  "county": "Wayne",
  "county_slug": "wayne-county-mi",
  "city": "Detroit",
  "source_type": "funeral_home",
  "obituary_url": "https://example.com/sample",
  "funeral_home_name": "Example Funeral Home",
  "indexed_at": "2026-08-08T14:22:00.000Z",
  "survivors_status": "ok"
}

This example shows the structure of an eligible Daily County Intelligence record. Field names follow the public Daily County Intelligence notice schema. Internal-only fields are omitted.

Michigan Death Data & Daily County Intelligence FAQ

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