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

Kalkaska County, MI, Michigan: 8 ZIP codes scored, Kalkaska County, MI averaging 19/100 (low, Kalkaska, MI), from 14 to 27. Kalkaska County, MI is in its peak phase (Kalkaska, MI confidence 27/100): Kalkaska, MI home prices up 3.1% (Kalkaska, MI) over twelve months. Kalkaska County, MI lender headwind: 49/100.

Highest-scoring Kalkaska County, MI ZIPs: 49690 (27/100), 49738 (22/100), 49633 (19/100), 49659 (18/100), 49612 (17/100), 49676 (17/100). Also scored in Kalkaska County, MI: 49646, 49680.

Across Kalkaska County, MI's scored ZIPs: median home value $221,263, household income $67,785, 31.5% vacancy, 11.6% poverty, 88% owner-occupied, median age 46.8.

Kalkaska County, MI insurance distress 27/100 (#1,738 in the US); FEMA hazard 52/100 for Kalkaska, MI; 4 federal disaster declarations in Kalkaska County, MI since 2023 (2 flood); Kalkaska, MI construction distress 53/100.

1 bank with 1 branch lend in Kalkaska County, MI; Kalkaska, MI weighted bank stress 63/100.

Kalkaska County, MI unemployment 4.8% (Kalkaska, MI -1.8 pts, six months); 40 new housing units permitted in Kalkaska County, MI over twelve months, Kalkaska, MI up 0% from 40; Kalkaska, MI home prices +10.9% a year (Kalkaska, MI) over three years.

11,690 housing units in Kalkaska County, MI; 968 Kalkaska, MI renter households; 40% of Kalkaska, MI renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 24% (Kalkaska, MI) half or more.

Kalkaska County, MI ranks #156 nationally on the opportunity index (Kalkaska, MI, among all ranked counties); Kalkaska, MI scores 36.3/100 and Kalkaska, MI sits #6 inside Michigan. Kalkaska, MI is in the strong_buy opportunity phase; Kalkaska, MI's primary driver is vacancy, Kalkaska, MI second driver construction; Kalkaska, MI moved up 438 places. 15 short-sale listings across Kalkaska, MI; 70 days on market observed in Kalkaska, MI; 31.9% vacancy over 8 Kalkaska, MI ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Kalkaska County, MI. The metro area reading for Kalkaska, MI (Traverse City, MI): 0.2% ninety-plus days late; Kalkaska, MI's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 1.9% (Kalkaska, MI, December 2025 data); Michigan overall 0.9%.

HUD lists 1 assisted multifamily property in Kalkaska County, MI with 48 units.

3,901 of the 11,690 housing units in Kalkaska, MI sit vacant. Kalkaska County, MI permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Kalkaska, MI's one-to-four unit structures added 40 units in Kalkaska County, MI.