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

Across Benzie County, Michigan, DLRadar grades every ZIP for foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress distress. Coverage runs to 11 ZIPs across Benzie County, a minimal 14/100 average. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 85/100 — elevated, a sign of lender stress locally. Individual Benzie County ZIPs score between 12 and 20 on the 0–100 composite.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 3.1% over the past year, a 27/100-confidence read. With pricing topped out, the average masks the outliers leaving the wins in individual deals.

With Benzie County flat at +3.1% YoY (27/100 confidence), the discount lives in outliers — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. Bank stress at 85/100 signals what's coming: short sales and foreclosures accelerate.

Leading Benzie County on distress: 49643 (20/100), 49684 (19/100), 49630 (14/100), 49683 (14/100), 49613 (12/100), 49616 (12/100). Other tracked Benzie County ZIPs include 49617, 49628, 49635, 49640, 49650.

Underneath the scores, the Benzie County ZIPs on file come in at home values averaging roughly $305,264, in line with the US, household income averaging about $75,996, roughly at the national median, 39% of units sitting vacant, residents with a median age around 52.9, 88% owner-occupancy, poverty running near 9.6%. Read together, they frame how much distress reaches the market and how fast it moves.

Benzie County, Michigan's 14/100 average over 11 ZIPs says the edge is selective acquisition for a disciplined buyer. Subscribers get each Benzie County parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, a per-parcel score, lender exposure and exit read.

The distress read for Benzie County, Michigan is refreshed as new public records post and uses the same methodology coast to coast, so Benzie County stays directly comparable to any other market you track.

For an acquisition buyer, the practical use of Benzie County, Michigan's scores is triage: the ZIPs and parcels carrying the highest composite are where motivated sellers and below-market exits concentrate, while lower-scored areas rarely justify the marketing spend. All Benzie County inputs are public record — recorder, court, FHFA and FDIC — and the score is rebuilt on ingest rather than modelled forward.

Drilling in, Benzie County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 49643 (20/100), 49684 (19/100), 49630 (14/100), 49683 (14/100), 49613 (12/100), 49616 (12/100). DLRadar also scores 49617, 49628, 49635, 49640, 49650 across the county. Every one of these is scored independently — a ZIP's composite reflects its own recorded distress, which is why the county average alone hides where the real pressure sits.

The Benzie County score is not a single measure but a composite: foreclosure activity, mortgage and tax-lien stress, and local lender headwind each feed it, which is why understanding the components matters as much as the headline number.