ZIP 48128 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 48128 (Wayne County, Michigan) at a low 27/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (59/100), institutional ownership (51/100), mortgage stress (20/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (90/100). The latent-versus-live split is 59/100 structural and 6/100 already moving.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.6% year on year, and 22% higher over three years (phase confidence 34/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

At $98,362, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. Around 49% of renters are cost-burdened. 87% of housing is owner-occupied. The vacancy rate is 2.7%. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 25/100. The typical home is worth about $258,700 (2.4× income, relatively affordable). Around 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. About 12,844 people live here, median age 36. The poverty rate is 13.8%. The ZIP holds roughly 4,553 housing units.

Net-net, 48128 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.