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

Ontonagon County, Michigan is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. Individual Ontonagon County ZIPs score between 7 and 9 on the 0–100 composite. Coverage runs to 12 ZIPs across Ontonagon County, a minimal 8/100 average. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 100 on a 0–100 scale, a elevated reading.

Currently expansion, Ontonagon County saw prices rise 5.5% year over year, at 32/100 phase confidence. While the county appreciates, the laggards keep building so the laggard ZIPs are the opening.

With growth of +5.5% YoY (32/100 confidence), liquidity improves for clean exits which speeds resale of distressed buys. Bank stress at 100/100 signals what's coming: banks under pressure move REO faster.

The sharpest Ontonagon County readings come from 49967 (9/100), 49910 (8/100), 49912 (8/100), 49925 (8/100), 49929 (8/100), 49947 (8/100) — open any for the parcel detail. Coverage extends to 49948, 49953, 49960, 49971, 49952, 49965 among others.

Underneath the scores, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Ontonagon County come in at a median household income near $54,276 (below the US norm), an owner-occupied share of 92%, vacancy near 47.9%, typical home values near $130,825, a 14.1% poverty rate, a median age of 56.9. Read together, they shape both the distress on offer and the exit velocity.

At 8/100 composite over 12 ZIPs, Ontonagon County rewards parcel-by-parcel work rather than a blanket buy. A DLRadar subscription opens every Ontonagon County parcel: owner, mailing address, APN, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.

The distress read for Ontonagon County, Michigan is refreshed as new public records post and uses the same methodology coast to coast, so Ontonagon County stays directly comparable to any other market you track.

For an acquisition buyer, the practical use of Ontonagon County, Michigan's scores is triage: the ZIPs and parcels carrying the highest composite are where motivated sellers and below-market exits concentrate, while lower-scored areas rarely justify the marketing spend. Every Ontonagon County signal ties to a named public source, and where the record is sparse DLRadar shows nothing instead of guessing.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Ontonagon County are 49967 (9/100), 49910 (8/100), 49912 (8/100), 49925 (8/100), 49929 (8/100), 49947 (8/100). DLRadar also scores 49948, 49953, 49960, 49971, 49952, 49965 across the county. Each code carries its own composite built from that ZIP's foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien and lender signals, so two neighboring ZIPs can diverge sharply even inside one county.

Under Ontonagon County's headline composite sit distinct layers — recorded foreclosures, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind — each scored separately before they roll up, so the same total can describe very different markets.