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

Eaton County, Michigan is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 78/100 (elevated). The county spans 19 scored ZIP codes, averaging 23/100 composite distress. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 16 to 27 out of 100.

The county market is in a neutral phase: home prices rose 4.7% over the past year, a 26/100-confidence read. This late in the run, broad sweeps stop paying as the ZIP scores below show.

Near the cycle top at +4.7% YoY (26/100 confidence), selectivity rules so the headline market won't hand it over. An elevated 78/100 reading favors patient capital: banks under pressure move REO faster.

The sharpest Eaton County readings come from 48842 (27/100), 48849 (26/100), 48911 (26/100), 48890 (25/100), 48813 (24/100), 48821 (24/100) — open any for the parcel detail. Other tracked Eaton County ZIPs include 48861, 48876, 49076, 49096, 49264, 48827, 48917, 48837, 49021, 49073.

Profile-wise, Eaton County's tracked footprint run 9.9% of households below the poverty line, an owner-occupied share of 80%, household income averaging about $73,045, roughly at the national median, 6.5% of units sitting vacant, a median age of 40.6, home values averaging roughly $198,895, below the US. Numbers like these set up both the distress on offer and the exit velocity.

With a low 23/100 reading over 19 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average — work it parcel by parcel. A DLRadar subscription opens every Eaton County parcel: owner, address and APN, a per-parcel score, lender exposure and exit read.

Whether Eaton County, Michigan carries heavy distress or only a handful of flagged parcels, every score here is built the same deterministic way — from recorded foreclosures, tax delinquency, liens and lender stress — so Eaton County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Used properly, Eaton 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 Eaton County as a whole. Every figure traces to a public federal or county source — recorder and court records for foreclosure and liens, FHFA for the price cycle, FDIC for lender stress — and DLRadar leaves a signal blank rather than estimating where Eaton County data is thin.

Drilling in, Eaton County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 48842 (27/100), 48849 (26/100), 48911 (26/100), 48890 (25/100), 48813 (24/100), 48821 (24/100). DLRadar also scores 48861, 48876, 49076, 49096, 49264, 48827, 48917, 48837 and more 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 Eaton 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.