ZIP 48026 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 48026 (Macomb County, Michigan) lands at 32/100 — moderate on DLRadar's distress scoring. Latent structural risk is 72/100 while live distress already moving reads 6/100. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (97/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (81/100)). Leading the profile are structural risk (72/100), construction/permit lag (64/100), institutional ownership (49/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (19/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 4.2% year on year, and 17% higher over three years, at 26/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Home values center near $215,900, an affordability ratio of 3.2× — accessible. The poverty rate is 10.4%. 14,604 residents call 48026 home, typically aged 42. On demographic stress specifically, 48026 scores 28/100. There are about 6,870 housing units across 48026. Around 32% of renters are cost-burdened. Vacancy runs 4.0%. At $61,118, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. 73% of housing is owner-occupied. About 21% have a four-year degree.

Net-net, 48026 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. While 48026 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

Whether 48026 runs hot or quiet, its 32/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 48026 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Macomb County, Michigan or nationwide. Sparse data for 48026 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

48026's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For a buyer, 48026 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.