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

Kent County, MI, Michigan: 39 ZIP codes scored, Kent County, MI averaging 26/100 (low, Kent, MI), from 22 to 28. Kent County, MI is in its peak phase (Kent, MI confidence 25/100): Kent, MI home prices up 3.9% (Kent, MI) over twelve months. Kent County, MI lender headwind: 52/100.

Highest-scoring Kent County, MI ZIPs: 49301 (28/100), 49302 (28/100), 49306 (28/100), 49319 (28/100), 49321 (28/100), 49341 (28/100). Also scored in Kent County, MI: 49345, 49503, 49504, 49505, 49506, 49507, 49508, 49509, 49512, 49519.

Across Kent County, MI's scored ZIPs: median home value $289,656, household income $83,736, 6.5% vacancy, 9.0% poverty, 78% owner-occupied, median age 37.4.

Kent County, MI insurance distress 61/100 (#861 in the US); FEMA hazard 52/100 for Kent, MI; 2 federal disaster declarations in Kent County, MI since 2023 (2 flood); 21 Kent, MI NFIP flood claims, $124K paid; Kent, MI construction distress 27/100.

24 banks with 148 branches lend in Kent County, MI; Kent, MI weighted bank stress 62/100, highest 90/100 in Kent, MI.

Kent County, MI unemployment 4.3% (Kent, MI +0.4 pts, six months); 2,400 new housing units permitted in Kent County, MI over twelve months, Kent, MI up 25% from 1,926; Kent, MI home prices +10.3% a year (Kent, MI) over three years.

269,136 housing units in Kent County, MI; 75,547 Kent, MI renter households; 47% of Kent, MI renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 22% (Kent, MI) half or more.

Kent County, MI ranks #2,709 nationally on the opportunity index (Kent, MI, among all ranked counties); Kent, MI scores 24.9/100 and Kent, MI sits #78 inside Michigan. Kent, MI is in the weak opportunity phase; Kent, MI's primary driver is bank institutional, Kent, MI second driver listings discount; Kent, MI moved up 201 places. 84 short-sale listings across Kent, MI; 82 days on market observed in Kent, MI; 4.4% vacancy over 39 Kent, MI ZIPs.

0.5% of Kent County, MI mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Kent, MI's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 1.7% (CFPB county sample). Kent, MI's ninety-day rate is down 0.1 points on twelve months earlier; the Kent, MI peak since 2008 was 4.1% in November 2009; Michigan overall reads 0.9%.

Kent County, MI has 13 watched banks; 13 Kent, MI banks sit in an elevated band. Kent, MI footprints: Macatawa Bank National Assn (11 branches, stress 37) in Kent, MI; Independent Bank (9 branches, stress 67) in Kent, MI; Choiceone Bank (7 branches, stress 60) in Kent, MI.

HUD lists 45 assisted multifamily properties in Kent County, MI with 3,052 units; 1,840 Kent, MI units are assisted, 22 Kent, MI properties under project-based Section 8.

12,488 of the 269,136 housing units in Kent, MI sit vacant. Kent County, MI permitted 1,153 multifamily units in twelve months; Kent, MI's one-to-four unit structures added 1,247 units in Kent County, MI.