Kalamazoo County, MI: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Kalamazoo County, MI, Michigan: 25 ZIP codes scored, Kalamazoo County, MI averaging 26/100 (low, Kalamazoo, MI), from 12 to 29. Kalamazoo County, MI is in its peak phase (Kalamazoo, MI confidence 35/100): Kalamazoo, MI home prices up 0.6% (Kalamazoo, MI) over twelve months. Kalamazoo County, MI lender headwind: 61/100.
Highest-scoring Kalamazoo County, MI ZIPs: 49001 (29/100), 49002 (29/100), 49004 (29/100), 49006 (29/100), 49007 (29/100), 49008 (29/100). Also scored in Kalamazoo County, MI: 49012, 49024, 49048, 49053, 49074, 49083, 49088, 49009, 49087, 49097.
Across Kalamazoo County, MI's scored ZIPs: median home value $232,561, household income $73,357, 7.4% vacancy, 11.5% poverty, 72% owner-occupied, median age 40.4.
Kalamazoo County, MI insurance distress 59/100 (#925 in the US); FEMA hazard 52/100 for Kalamazoo, MI; 2 federal disaster declarations in Kalamazoo County, MI since 2023 (2 flood); 3 Kalamazoo, MI NFIP flood claims, $51K paid; Kalamazoo, MI construction distress 56/100.
13 banks with 45 branches lend in Kalamazoo County, MI; Kalamazoo, MI weighted bank stress 64/100, highest 90/100 in Kalamazoo, MI.
Kalamazoo County, MI unemployment 4.5% (Kalamazoo, MI +0.4 pts, six months); 450 new housing units permitted in Kalamazoo County, MI over twelve months, Kalamazoo, MI down 6% from 478; Kalamazoo, MI home prices +9.1% a year (Kalamazoo, MI) over three years.
114,908 housing units in Kalamazoo County, MI; 38,303 Kalamazoo, MI renter households; 47% of Kalamazoo, MI renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 24% (Kalamazoo, MI) half or more.
Kalamazoo County, MI ranks #2,517 nationally on the opportunity index (Kalamazoo, MI, among all ranked counties); Kalamazoo, MI scores 25.8/100 and Kalamazoo, MI sits #75 inside Michigan. Kalamazoo, MI is in the weak opportunity phase; Kalamazoo, MI's primary driver is bank institutional, Kalamazoo, MI second driver construction; Kalamazoo, MI moved up 10 places. 12 short-sale listings across Kalamazoo, MI; 128 days on market observed in Kalamazoo, MI; 7.0% vacancy over 25 Kalamazoo, MI ZIPs.
1.0% of Kalamazoo County, MI mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Kalamazoo, MI's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.7% (CFPB county sample). Kalamazoo, MI's ninety-day rate is up 0.7 points on twelve months earlier; the Kalamazoo, MI peak since 2008 was 3.4% in February 2010; Michigan overall reads 0.9%.
Kalamazoo County, MI has 5 watched banks; 5 Kalamazoo, MI banks sit in an elevated band. Kalamazoo, MI footprints: Sturgis Bank&Trust Co (3 branches, stress 77) in Kalamazoo, MI; First Nb Of Michigan (3 branches, stress 74) in Kalamazoo, MI; Mercantile Bank (3 branches, stress 52) in Kalamazoo, MI.
HUD lists 26 assisted multifamily properties in Kalamazoo County, MI with 3,223 units; 1,855 Kalamazoo, MI units are assisted, 13 Kalamazoo, MI properties under project-based Section 8.
7,798 of the 114,908 housing units in Kalamazoo, MI sit vacant. Kalamazoo County, MI permitted 7 multifamily units in twelve months; Kalamazoo, MI's one-to-four unit structures added 443 units in Kalamazoo County, MI.