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

Wayne County, MI, Michigan: 71 ZIP codes scored, Wayne County, MI averaging 34/100 (moderate, Wayne, MI), from 28 to 34. Wayne County, MI is in its peak phase (Wayne, MI confidence 26/100): Wayne, MI home prices up 4.2% (Wayne, MI) over twelve months. Wayne County, MI lender headwind: 61/100.

Highest-scoring Wayne County, MI ZIPs: 48101 (34/100), 48111 (34/100), 48120 (34/100), 48122 (34/100), 48124 (34/100), 48125 (34/100). Also scored in Wayne County, MI: 48126, 48127, 48128, 48135, 48138, 48141, 48146, 48150, 48152, 48154.

Across Wayne County, MI's scored ZIPs: median home value $193,879, household income $65,539, 12.9% vacancy, 20.8% poverty, 63% owner-occupied, median age 38.4.

Wayne County, MI insurance distress 65/100 (#763 in the US); FEMA hazard 52/100 for Wayne, MI; 2 federal disaster declarations in Wayne County, MI since 2023 (2 flood); 70 Wayne, MI NFIP flood claims, $980K paid; Wayne, MI construction distress 72/100.

15 banks with 234 branches lend in Wayne County, MI; Wayne, MI weighted bank stress 65/100, highest 90/100 in Wayne, MI.

Wayne County, MI unemployment 6.9% (Wayne, MI +0.2 pts, six months); 2,999 new housing units permitted in Wayne County, MI over twelve months, Wayne, MI down 23% from 3,874; Wayne, MI home prices +8.6% a year (Wayne, MI) over three years.

801,083 housing units in Wayne County, MI; 246,326 Wayne, MI renter households; 49% of Wayne, MI renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 27% (Wayne, MI) half or more.

Wayne County, MI ranks #172 nationally on the opportunity index (Wayne, MI, among all ranked counties); Wayne, MI scores 36.1/100 and Wayne, MI sits #7 inside Michigan. Wayne, MI is in the peak_opportunity opportunity phase; Wayne, MI's primary driver is construction, Wayne, MI second driver vacancy; Wayne, MI moved up 470 places. 1,108 short-sale listings across Wayne, MI; 61 days on market observed in Wayne, MI; 11.8% vacancy over 71 Wayne, MI ZIPs.

1.3% of Wayne County, MI mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Wayne, MI's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 3.2% (CFPB county sample). Wayne, MI's ninety-day rate is up 0.3 points on twelve months earlier; the Wayne, MI peak since 2008 was 9.1% in December 2009; Michigan overall reads 0.9%.

Wayne County, MI has 5 watched banks; 5 Wayne, MI banks sit in an elevated band. Wayne, MI footprints: Dearborn Fsb (5 branches, stress 50) in Wayne, MI; First Independence Bank (2 branches, stress 51) in Wayne, MI; Independent Bank (1 branch, stress 67) in Wayne, MI.

HUD lists 149 assisted multifamily properties in Wayne County, MI with 20,031 units; 9,128 Wayne, MI units are assisted, 56 Wayne, MI properties under project-based Section 8.

100,492 of the 801,083 housing units in Wayne, MI sit vacant. Wayne County, MI permitted 1,570 multifamily units in twelve months; Wayne, MI's one-to-four unit structures added 1,429 units in Wayne County, MI.