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

Across Leelanau County, Michigan, DLRadar grades every ZIP for foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress distress. On bank and credit headwind, Leelanau County scores 62/100, a stressed reading. The county's ZIP scores run from 12 up to 19/100. Coverage runs to 11 ZIPs across Leelanau County, a minimal 14/100 average.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 3.1% over twelve months, a 27/100-confidence read. At this stage of the cycle, blanket buying underperforms as the ZIP scores below show.

Leelanau County's topped-out +3.1% YoY (27/100 confidence) means the discount lives in outliers so the headline market won't hand it over. Its 62/100 lender headwind signals what's coming: expect more lender-driven inventory soon.

The sharpest Leelanau County readings come from 49684 (19/100), 49621 (14/100), 49630 (14/100), 49636 (14/100), 49653 (14/100), 49654 (14/100) — open any for the parcel detail. Other tracked Leelanau County ZIPs include 49664, 49670, 49674, 49682, 49640.

Demographically, Leelanau County's scored ZIPs report incomes around $83,017, vacancy near 47%, home values averaging roughly $530,955, above the US, an owner-occupied share of 90%, 7.1% of households below the poverty line, a median age of 58.9. Numbers like these drive the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.

At 14/100 composite over 11 ZIPs, Leelanau County rewards parcel-by-parcel work and not a county-wide play. Inside DLRadar, each Leelanau County property carries owner and contact detail, APN, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.

Because Leelanau County, Michigan is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Leelanau County against neighboring markets or the rest of Michigan on equal footing.

The practical read on Leelanau County, Michigan is a targeting one — find the ZIPs holding real financial pressure, then work the parcels underneath them. The Leelanau County scoring is reproducible from public sources alone, and DLRadar declines to estimate where the underlying record is incomplete.

Drilling in, Leelanau County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 49684 (19/100), 49621 (14/100), 49630 (14/100), 49636 (14/100), 49653 (14/100), 49654 (14/100). DLRadar also scores 49664, 49670, 49674, 49682, 49640 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.

DLRadar's composite for Leelanau County blends several independent signals — foreclosure and pre-foreclosure filings, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, and the bank-stress headwind of the lenders operating locally — into one 0–100 score per ZIP, so a market can rank high on one axis and low on another.