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

Cass County, Michigan sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. Individual Cass County ZIPs score between 12 and 21 on the 0–100 composite. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 60/100 (elevated). Coverage runs to 14 ZIPs across Cass County, a low 18/100 average.

In its expansion phase, Cass County home prices rose 6.1% across the last year, a 36/100-confidence read. Through the growth, pockets of distress persist where the composite stays elevated.

Through Cass County's +6.1% YoY climb (36/100 confidence), distress still hides in specific ZIPs where the scoring still flags pressure. An elevated 60/100 reading is a buyer tailwind: short sales and foreclosures accelerate.

Leading Cass County on distress: 49102 (21/100), 49111 (21/100), 49120 (21/100), 49031 (20/100), 49047 (20/100), 49061 (20/100). Also scored across the county: 49095, 49112, 49130, 49045, 49067, 49099, 49042, 49093.

Underneath the scores, the Cass County ZIPs on file run home values averaging roughly $215,621, below the US, an owner-occupied share of 81%, poverty running near 11.9%, residents with a median age around 46.8, a 16.5% vacancy rate, a median household income near $63,757 (below the US norm). These fundamentals shape which owners come under strain and how quickly stock clears.

Net of it all, 18/100 over 14 ZIPs means Cass County is a screen-by-ZIP market and not a county-wide play. Subscribers get each Cass County parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, score, bank exposure and an exit-velocity estimate.

No county is too small to score: Cass County, Michigan runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Cass County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in Michigan.

Used properly, Cass County, Michigan's scores are a triage layer: they rank where motivated sellers cluster so acquisition spend goes to the ZIPs that convert rather than across Cass County as a whole. What supports the Cass County read is documentary: filings from the recorder and courts, federal price and bank data, and blanks wherever coverage is thin.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Cass County are 49102 (21/100), 49111 (21/100), 49120 (21/100), 49031 (20/100), 49047 (20/100), 49061 (20/100). DLRadar also scores 49095, 49112, 49130, 49045, 49067, 49099, 49042, 49093 across the county. Each code carries its own composite built from that ZIP's foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien and lender signals, so two neighboring ZIPs can diverge sharply even inside one county.

DLRadar's composite for Cass County blends several independent signals — foreclosure and pre-foreclosure filings, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, and the bank-stress headwind of the lenders operating locally — into one 0–100 score per ZIP, so a market can rank high on one axis and low on another.