ZIP 48201 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Wayne County, Michigan's ZIP 48201 registers 34/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (77/100), construction/permit lag (73/100), institutional ownership (51/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) register low. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (85/100), FEMA disaster exposure (60/100)). The split runs 77/100 structural to 6/100 active on the ground.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.2% over the trailing year, at 26/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Median household income is $24,392, below the U.S. median near $78,000. On demographic stress specifically, 48201 scores 62/100. Rent burden reaches 40% of tenant households. About 14,327 people live here, median age 34. Around 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The typical home is worth about $412,600 (16.5× income, severely stretched). The ZIP holds roughly 10,273 housing units. The tenure split is 11% owner-occupied to 89% rented. Roughly 42.1% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. The vacancy rate is 20.5% — elevated.

On the whole, 48201 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. No parcel file is published for 48201 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

The 48201 read uses the identical scoring model applied coast to coast, which means its 34/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 48201 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Wayne County, Michigan. Where the record is thin for 48201, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

The 34/100 figure for 48201 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. Treat 48201 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.