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

Across Iron County, Michigan, DLRadar grades every ZIP for foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress distress. Lender pressure in Iron County registers 100/100 — a elevated bank-stress headwind. Coverage runs to 8 ZIPs across Iron County, a low 17/100 average. Individual Iron County ZIPs score between 9 and 21 on the 0–100 composite.

In its expansion phase, Iron County home prices rose 5.5% across the last year, a 32/100-confidence read. Under a rising market, the laggards keep building which the scoring still flags.

Even appreciating at +5.5% YoY (32/100 confidence), stressed pockets remain which speeds resale of distressed buys. Its 100/100 lender headwind is a buyer tailwind: short sales and foreclosures accelerate.

Top distress by ZIP runs 49879 (21/100), 49902 (18/100), 49903 (18/100), 49915 (18/100), 49920 (18/100), 49927 (18/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. Other tracked Iron County ZIPs include 49935, 49967.

Underneath the scores, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Iron County come in at vacancy near 40.2%, 89% of homes owner-occupied, a median household income near $54,176 (below the US norm), typical home values near $85,938, a 17.8% poverty rate, a median age of 57.1. These fundamentals frame how much distress reaches the market and how fast it moves.

All in at 17/100 over 8 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average and not a county-wide play. Subscribers get each Iron County parcel's owner, APN and address, a distress score and bank-exposure read.

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

In Iron County, Michigan, the scores are a targeting tool first: they tell you which ZIPs hold the distress and which owners are most likely under real financial pressure, so limited acquisition effort lands where it converts. 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 Iron County data is thin.

Drilling in, Iron County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 49879 (21/100), 49902 (18/100), 49903 (18/100), 49915 (18/100), 49920 (18/100), 49927 (18/100). DLRadar also scores 49935, 49967 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 Iron 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.