Benzie County, MI: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Benzie County, MI, Michigan: 11 ZIP codes scored, Benzie County, MI averaging 14/100 (minimal, Benzie, MI), from 12 to 22. Benzie County, MI is in its peak phase (Benzie, MI confidence 27/100): Benzie, MI home prices up 3.1% (Benzie, MI) over twelve months. Benzie County, MI lender headwind: 85/100.

Highest-scoring Benzie County, MI ZIPs: 49643 (22/100), 49684 (20/100), 49630 (15/100), 49683 (15/100), 49613 (14/100), 49616 (12/100). Also scored in Benzie County, MI: 49617, 49628, 49635, 49640, 49650.

Across Benzie County, MI's scored ZIPs: median home value $305,264, household income $75,996, 39.0% vacancy, 9.6% poverty, 88% owner-occupied, median age 52.9.

Benzie County, MI insurance distress 27/100 (#1,736 in the US); FEMA hazard 52/100 for Benzie, MI; 2 federal disaster declarations in Benzie County, MI since 2023 (2 flood); Benzie, MI construction distress 30/100.

3 banks with 6 branches lend in Benzie County, MI; Benzie, MI weighted bank stress 75/100, highest 88/100 in Benzie, MI.

Benzie County, MI unemployment 4.2% (Benzie, MI -2.2 pts, six months); 147 new housing units permitted in Benzie County, MI over twelve months, Benzie, MI up 25% from 118; Benzie, MI home prices +14.5% a year (Benzie, MI) over three years.

12,326 housing units in Benzie County, MI; 909 Benzie, MI renter households; 35% of Benzie, MI renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 20% (Benzie, MI) half or more.

Benzie County, MI ranks #970 nationally on the opportunity index (Benzie, MI, among all ranked counties); Benzie, MI scores 31.3/100 and Benzie, MI sits #30 inside Michigan. Benzie, MI is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Benzie, MI's primary driver is vacancy, Benzie, MI second driver bank institutional; Benzie, MI moved down 307 places. 5 short-sale listings across Benzie, MI; 53 days on market observed in Benzie, MI; 31.3% vacancy over 11 Benzie, MI ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Benzie County, MI. The metro area reading for Benzie, MI (Traverse City, MI): 0.2% ninety-plus days late; Benzie, MI's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 1.9% (Benzie, MI, December 2025 data); Michigan overall 0.9%.

Benzie County, MI has 3 watched banks; 3 Benzie, MI banks sit in an elevated band. Benzie, MI footprints: Honor Bank (3 branches, stress 66) in Benzie, MI; State Savings Bank (2 branches, stress 88) in Benzie, MI; West Shore Bank (1 branch, stress 76) in Benzie, MI.

4,618 of the 12,326 housing units in Benzie, MI sit vacant. Benzie County, MI permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Benzie, MI's one-to-four unit structures added 147 units in Benzie County, MI.