ZIP 46217 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Marion County, Indiana's ZIP 46217 registers 35/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Latent structural risk is 78/100 while live distress already moving reads 3/100. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (97/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (84/100), FEMA disaster exposure (71/100). Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (78/100), construction/permit lag (73/100), institutional ownership (57/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (8/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 3.1% year on year, and 12% higher over three years (phase confidence 24/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

82% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 35% of renters are cost-burdened. 38,659 residents call 46217 home, typically aged 36. Vacancy runs 2.5%. The typical home is worth about $244,000 (2.6× income, relatively affordable). Households earn a median $88,326 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 24/100. Around 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The ZIP holds roughly 14,247 housing units. The poverty rate is 7.2% — low.

On balance 46217 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. No parcel file is published for 46217 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

No ZIP is too small to score: 46217 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 35/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 46217 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

46217's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For a buyer, 46217 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.