ZIP 48202 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Wayne County, Michigan · High Vacancy market
In Wayne County, Michigan, ZIP 48202 scores 34 of 100 for composite distress, a moderate level on DLRadar's distress index. Structural exposure scores 76 and live distress 6 on the 0–100 scale. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (76/100), construction/permit lag (73/100), institutional ownership (50/100). mortgage stress (20/100) stay muted. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (85/100).
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.2% over the trailing year, and 22% higher over three years, at 26/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
The typical home is worth about $186,500 (5.3× income). 29.4% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. About 14,792 people live here, median age 33. There are about 10,380 housing units across 48202. Educational attainment sits at 38% bachelor's-or-above. On demographic stress specifically, 48202 scores 44/100. Owners hold 30% of homes, renters 70%. Median household income is $36,536, below the U.S. median near $78,000. Vacancy runs 26.2%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Around 45% of renters are cost-burdened.
On the whole, 48202 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. While 48202 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.
No ZIP is too small to score: 48202 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. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 48202, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.
48202'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, 48202 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.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 48202
Tax-delinquent parcels, institutional ownership, insurance strain, flood risk, construction lag, price dislocation and auction speed — plus the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.
48202 at a glance
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 48202, the same set carried on every parcel.
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