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

Every ZIP in Hillsdale County, Michigan carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. On bank and credit headwind, Hillsdale County scores 69/100, a stressed reading. The county's ZIP scores run from 10 up to 16/100. Coverage runs to 19 ZIPs across Hillsdale County, a minimal 11/100 average.

In its peak phase, Hillsdale County home prices rose 4.2% across the last year, a 26/100-confidence read. With values leveling off, broad sweeps stop paying with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

Hillsdale County's topped-out +4.2% YoY (26/100 confidence) means the wins are surgical so the headline market won't hand it over. Its 69/100 lender headwind favors patient capital: short sales and foreclosures accelerate.

Highest scores land in 49246 (16/100), 49220 (14/100), 49233 (14/100), 49247 (14/100), 49082 (13/100), 49252 (11/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. The breakdown continues through 49255, 49288, 49227, 49232, 49242, 49249, 49250, 49258, 49262, 49266 and more.

On the housing-and-income side, Hillsdale County's tracked footprint come in at a median household income near $63,075 (below the US norm), poverty running near 15%, a median age of 42.1, typical home values near $179,512, vacancy near 14.8%, 82% owner-occupancy. These fundamentals frame who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

All in at 11/100 over 19 ZIPs, Hillsdale County rewards parcel-by-parcel work for a disciplined buyer. A DLRadar subscription opens every Hillsdale County parcel: owner and contact detail, APN, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

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

The practical read on Hillsdale County, Michigan is a targeting one — find the ZIPs holding real financial pressure, then work the parcels underneath them. The Hillsdale County read is rebuilt from public records as they post — no modeling fills the gaps — so what you see is what the documents support, refreshed on each ingest.

Drilling in, Hillsdale County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 49246 (16/100), 49220 (14/100), 49233 (14/100), 49247 (14/100), 49082 (13/100), 49252 (11/100). DLRadar also scores 49255, 49288, 49227, 49232, 49242, 49249, 49250, 49258 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.

DLRadar's composite for Hillsdale 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.