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

Jackson County, MI, Michigan: 29 ZIP codes scored, Jackson County, MI averaging 18/100 (low, Jackson, MI), from 14 to 28. Jackson County, MI is in its expansion phase (Jackson, MI confidence 31/100): Jackson, MI home prices up 5.8% (Jackson, MI) over twelve months. Jackson County, MI lender headwind: 79/100.

Highest-scoring Jackson County, MI ZIPs: 48158 (28/100), 49251 (26/100), 49285 (25/100), 49264 (23/100), 48827 (22/100), 49245 (22/100). Also scored in Jackson County, MI: 49224, 49240, 49284, 49237, 49201, 49202, 49203, 49230, 49234, 49241.

Across Jackson County, MI's scored ZIPs: median home value $210,221, household income $69,929, 12.0% vacancy, 10.2% poverty, 84% owner-occupied, median age 42.6.

Jackson County, MI insurance distress 5/100 (#2,453 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Jackson, MI; 1 Jackson, MI NFIP flood claims; Jackson, MI construction distress 35/100.

12 banks with 31 branches lend in Jackson County, MI; Jackson, MI weighted bank stress 72/100, highest 90/100 in Jackson, MI.

Jackson County, MI unemployment 5.0% (Jackson, MI -0.1 pts, six months); 289 new housing units permitted in Jackson County, MI over twelve months, Jackson, MI up 15% from 252; Jackson, MI home prices +8.8% a year (Jackson, MI) over three years.

69,292 housing units in Jackson County, MI; 15,478 Jackson, MI renter households; 44% of Jackson, MI renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 24% (Jackson, MI) half or more.

Jackson County, MI ranks #2,207 nationally on the opportunity index (Jackson, MI, among all ranked counties); Jackson, MI scores 27.0/100 and Jackson, MI sits #65 inside Michigan. Jackson, MI is in the weak opportunity phase; Jackson, MI's primary driver is bank institutional, Jackson, MI second driver vacancy; Jackson, MI moved up 253 places. 30 short-sale listings across Jackson, MI; 81 days on market observed in Jackson, MI; 10.4% vacancy over 29 Jackson, MI ZIPs.

1.2% of Jackson County, MI mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Jackson, MI's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 3.2% (CFPB county sample). Jackson, MI's ninety-day rate is up 0.3 points on twelve months earlier; the Jackson, MI peak since 2008 was 4.5% in January 2010; Michigan overall reads 0.9%.

Jackson County, MI has 7 watched banks; 7 Jackson, MI banks sit in an elevated band. Jackson, MI footprints: County National Bank (5 branches, stress 73) in Jackson, MI; Southern Michigan Bank&Trust (2 branches, stress 76) in Jackson, MI; Choiceone Bank (2 branches, stress 60) in Jackson, MI.

HUD lists 8 assisted multifamily properties in Jackson County, MI with 951 units; 130 Jackson, MI units are assisted, 2 Jackson, MI properties under project-based Section 8.

6,752 of the 69,292 housing units in Jackson, MI sit vacant. Jackson County, MI permitted 75 multifamily units in twelve months; Jackson, MI's one-to-four unit structures added 214 units in Jackson County, MI.