ZIP 48206 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Wayne County, Michigan · High Vacancy market
Wayne County, Michigan's ZIP 48206 registers 33/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Structural risk reads 74/100 against active distress of 6/100. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (90/100). Its standout signals are structural risk (74/100), construction/permit lag (65/100), institutional ownership (48/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) register low.
The market reads peak — home values rose 4.2% year on year, and 20% higher over three years (phase confidence 26/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
About 16,447 people live here, median age 40. There are about 10,649 housing units across 48206. Home values center near $116,300, an affordability ratio of 2.3× — accessible. Owners hold 51% of homes, renters 49%. At $43,702, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Vacancy runs 39.0%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The poverty rate is 26.6% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Rent burden reaches 40% of tenant households. About 24% have a four-year degree. On demographic stress specifically, 48206 scores 35/100.
Net-net, 48206 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
The number is not local guesswork: 48206's 33/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Where the public record is thin for 48206, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.
The 33/100 figure for 48206 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. Practically, 48206 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 48206
Delinquent tax, institutional holdings, insurance strain, flood/NFIP exposure, build-out lag, price dislocation and auction pace — along with the 0 individual distressed properties are listed in full, with owner, address, APN, per-parcel score and exit-velocity read.
Snapshot: 48206 by the numbers
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 48206, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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