Van Buren County, MI: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Van Buren County, MI, Michigan: 23 ZIP codes scored, Van Buren County, MI averaging 18/100 (low, Van Buren, MI), from 14 to 28. Van Buren County, MI is in its expansion phase (Van Buren, MI confidence 32/100): Van Buren, MI home prices up 5.5% (Van Buren, MI) over twelve months. Van Buren County, MI lender headwind: 62/100.
Highest-scoring Van Buren County, MI ZIPs: 49009 (28/100), 49087 (28/100), 49010 (24/100), 49078 (24/100), 49022 (23/100), 49038 (22/100). Also scored in Van Buren County, MI: 49098, 49090, 49056, 49071, 49047, 49026, 49055, 49045, 49065, 49067.
Across Van Buren County, MI's scored ZIPs: median home value $205,255, household income $68,397, 17.3% vacancy, 14.7% poverty, 80% owner-occupied, median age 43.1.
Van Buren County, MI insurance distress 19/100 (#2,358 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Van Buren, MI; 1 Van Buren, MI NFIP flood claims, $10K paid; Van Buren, MI construction distress 21/100.
7 banks with 10 branches lend in Van Buren County, MI; Van Buren, MI weighted bank stress 68/100, highest 77/100 in Van Buren, MI.
Van Buren County, MI unemployment 4.6% (Van Buren, MI -1.2 pts, six months); 244 new housing units permitted in Van Buren County, MI over twelve months, Van Buren, MI up 37% from 178; Van Buren, MI home prices +10.1% a year (Van Buren, MI) over three years.
37,405 housing units in Van Buren County, MI; 5,883 Van Buren, MI renter households; 41% of Van Buren, MI renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 20% (Van Buren, MI) half or more.
Van Buren County, MI ranks #2,689 nationally on the opportunity index (Van Buren, MI, among all ranked counties); Van Buren, MI scores 25.0/100 and Van Buren, MI sits #77 inside Michigan. Van Buren, MI is in the weak opportunity phase; Van Buren, MI's primary driver is vacancy, Van Buren, MI second driver bank institutional; Van Buren, MI moved down 353 places. 8 short-sale listings across Van Buren, MI; 43 days on market observed in Van Buren, MI; 17.1% vacancy over 23 Van Buren, MI ZIPs.
No CFPB county sample covers Van Buren County, MI. The non-metro area reading for Van Buren, MI: 1.0% ninety-plus days late; Van Buren, MI's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 2.6% (Van Buren, MI, December 2025 data); Michigan overall 0.9%.
Van Buren County, MI has 4 watched banks; 4 Van Buren, MI banks sit in an elevated band. Van Buren, MI footprints: Sturgis Bank&Trust Co (3 branches, stress 77) in Van Buren, MI; Kalamazoo County State Bank (1 branch, stress 77) in Van Buren, MI; First State Bank Of Michigan (1 branch, stress 65) in Van Buren, MI.
HUD lists 3 assisted multifamily properties in Van Buren County, MI with 116 units; 99 Van Buren, MI units are assisted, 3 Van Buren, MI properties under project-based Section 8.
6,783 of the 37,405 housing units in Van Buren, MI sit vacant. Van Buren County, MI permitted 52 multifamily units in twelve months; Van Buren, MI's one-to-four unit structures added 192 units in Van Buren County, MI.