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

Across Ingham County, Michigan, DLRadar grades every ZIP for foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress distress. The county spans 23 scored ZIP codes, averaging 25/100 composite distress. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 61 on a 0–100 scale, a elevated reading. The county's ZIP scores run from 16 up to 27/100.

The county market is in a neutral phase: home prices rose 4.7% over the past year, a 26/100-confidence read. At this stage of the cycle, the average masks the outliers so screen ZIP by ZIP.

Ingham County's topped-out +4.7% YoY (26/100 confidence) means selectivity rules so the headline market won't hand it over. Its 61/100 lender headwind favors patient capital: expect more lender-driven inventory soon.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Ingham County are 48819 (27/100), 48824 (27/100), 48825 (27/100), 48842 (27/100), 48854 (27/100), 48864 (27/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. The breakdown continues through 48892, 48895, 48910, 48912, 48915, 48933, 48911, 49251, 49285, 48821 and more.

Demographically, the Ingham County ZIPs on file run 6.2% of units sitting vacant, residents with a median age around 37.6, 66% owner-occupancy, poverty running near 16.3%, typical home values near $216,724, incomes around $69,933. Numbers like these frame how much distress reaches the market and how fast it moves.

At 25/100 composite over 23 ZIPs, Ingham County is a screen-by-ZIP market and not a county-wide play. A DLRadar subscription opens every Ingham County parcel: owner and contact detail, APN, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.

Whether Ingham 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 Ingham County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

The point of scoring Ingham County, Michigan is to narrow it — the high-composite ZIPs carry the distress, and everything below them rarely repays the outreach cost. Nothing in the Ingham County read is modelled: recorder and court filings drive foreclosure and lien signals, FHFA sets the price cycle, FDIC the lender stress, and a thin source stays blank.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Ingham County are 48819 (27/100), 48824 (27/100), 48825 (27/100), 48842 (27/100), 48854 (27/100), 48864 (27/100). DLRadar also scores 48892, 48895, 48910, 48912, 48915, 48933, 48911, 49251 and more 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 Ingham 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.