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

Isabella County, MI, Michigan: 16 ZIP codes scored, Isabella County, MI averaging 17/100 (low, Isabella, MI), from 12 to 25. Isabella County, MI is in its peak phase (Isabella, MI confidence 26/100): Isabella, MI home prices up 4.2% (Isabella, MI) over twelve months. Isabella County, MI lender headwind: 64/100.

Highest-scoring Isabella County, MI ZIPs: 48880 (25/100), 48829 (24/100), 48877 (23/100), 48618 (22/100), 49305 (22/100), 49340 (20/100). Also scored in Isabella County, MI: 48883, 49310, 48632, 48858, 48859, 48878, 48893, 48896, 48617, 48622.

Across Isabella County, MI's scored ZIPs: median home value $158,480, household income $54,964, 19.2% vacancy, 21.6% poverty, 85% owner-occupied, median age 41.5.

Isabella County, MI insurance distress 0/100 (#2,731 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Isabella, MI; Isabella, MI construction distress 37/100.

5 banks with 17 branches lend in Isabella County, MI; Isabella, MI weighted bank stress 67/100, highest 73/100 in Isabella, MI.

Isabella County, MI unemployment 5.1% (Isabella, MI -0.1 pts, six months); 86 new housing units permitted in Isabella County, MI over twelve months, Isabella, MI up 23% from 70; Isabella, MI home prices +7.9% a year (Isabella, MI) over three years.

28,660 housing units in Isabella County, MI; 9,659 Isabella, MI renter households; 50% of Isabella, MI renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 29% (Isabella, MI) half or more.

Isabella County, MI ranks #1,906 nationally on the opportunity index (Isabella, MI, among all ranked counties); Isabella, MI scores 28.0/100 and Isabella, MI sits #60 inside Michigan. Isabella, MI is in the early_signal opportunity phase; Isabella, MI's primary driver is vacancy, Isabella, MI second driver bank institutional; Isabella, MI moved up 171 places. 9 short-sale listings across Isabella, MI; 69 days on market observed in Isabella, MI; 13.2% vacancy over 16 Isabella, MI ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Isabella County, MI. The non-metro area reading for Isabella, MI: 1.0% ninety-plus days late; Isabella, MI's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.6% (Isabella, MI, December 2025 data); Michigan overall 0.9%.

Isabella County, MI has 2 watched banks; 2 Isabella, MI banks sit in an elevated band. Isabella, MI footprints: Isabella Bank (10 branches, stress 73) in Isabella, MI; Mercantile Bank (3 branches, stress 52) in Isabella, MI.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Isabella County, MI with 26 units; 26 Isabella, MI units are assisted, 1 Isabella, MI properties under project-based Section 8.

3,746 of the 28,660 housing units in Isabella, MI sit vacant. Isabella County, MI permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Isabella, MI's one-to-four unit structures added 86 units in Isabella County, MI.