ZIP 48017 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Oakland County, Michigan's ZIP 48017 registers 34/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Structural risk reads 75/100 against active distress of 6/100. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (75/100), construction/permit lag (64/100), institutional ownership (51/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (19/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (90/100).

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.6% year on year, and 18% higher over three years, at 34/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

Vacancy runs 1.6%. 74% of housing is owner-occupied. About 11,271 people live here, median age 41. Around 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. At $86,935, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. Rent burden reaches 32% of tenant households. The typical home is worth about $267,500 (2.9× income, relatively affordable). There are about 5,851 housing units across 48017. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 23/100. The poverty rate is 5.2% — low.

Net-net, 48017 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.