ZIP 48173 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

On DLRadar's 0-100 distress scale, ZIP 48173 in Wayne County, Michigan comes in at 34, a moderate composite-distress reading. The pressure is most legible in structural risk (77/100), construction/permit lag (73/100), institutional ownership (51/100). mortgage stress (20/100) stay muted. Structural risk reads 77/100 against active distress of 6/100. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (85/100), FEMA disaster exposure (60/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.2% over the trailing year, and 17% higher over three years (phase confidence 26/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

84% of housing is owner-occupied. The poverty rate is 4.7% — low. Rent burden reaches 23% of tenant households. About 24% have a four-year degree. At $90,510, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. About 12,984 people live here, median age 45. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 22/100. The vacancy rate is 5.0%. There are about 5,487 housing units across 48173. Home values center near $244,900, an affordability ratio of 2.6× — accessible.

Net-net, 48173 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. No parcel file is published for 48173 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

No ZIP is too small to score: 48173 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 34/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. 48173 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

Behind 48173's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. In workflow terms, 48173 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.