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

Kent County, Michigan is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. DLRadar scores 39 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 26/100. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 52 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 20 to 28 out of 100.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 3.9% over the past year (phase confidence 25/100). With values leveling off, blanket buying underperforms — the edge is parcel by parcel.

Kent County's topped-out +3.9% YoY (25/100 confidence) means the discount lives in outliers and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. Mid-range bank stress at 52/100 implies mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

By composite, 49301 (28/100), 49302 (28/100), 49306 (28/100), 49319 (28/100), 49321 (28/100), 49341 (28/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Other tracked Kent County ZIPs include 49345, 49503, 49504, 49505, 49506, 49507, 49508, 49509, 49512, 49519.

On the housing-and-income side, the Kent County ZIPs on file run 78% owner-occupancy, a median age of 37.4, typical home values near $289,656, a 6.5% vacancy rate, a 9% poverty rate, incomes around $83,736. Income, equity and tenure like these shape which owners come under strain and how quickly stock clears.

Kent County, Michigan's 26/100 average over 39 ZIPs says Kent County rewards parcel-by-parcel work rather than a blanket buy. A DLRadar subscription opens every Kent County parcel: owner and contact detail, APN, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.

Whether Kent County, Michigan carries heavy distress or only a handful of flagged parcels, every score here is built the same deterministic way — from recorded foreclosures, tax delinquency, liens and lender stress — so Kent County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

The point of scoring Kent County, Michigan is to narrow it — the high-composite ZIPs carry the distress, and everything below them rarely repays the outreach cost. What supports the Kent County read is documentary: filings from the recorder and courts, federal price and bank data, and blanks wherever coverage is thin.

Drilling in, Kent County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 49301 (28/100), 49302 (28/100), 49306 (28/100), 49319 (28/100), 49321 (28/100), 49341 (28/100). DLRadar also scores 49345, 49503, 49504, 49505, 49506, 49507, 49508, 49509 and more across the county. Every one of these is scored independently — a ZIP's composite reflects its own recorded distress, which is why the county average alone hides where the real pressure sits.

The Kent County score is not a single measure but a composite: foreclosure activity, mortgage and tax-lien stress, and local lender headwind each feed it, which is why understanding the components matters as much as the headline number.