ZIP 48206 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Wayne County, Michigan's ZIP 48206 registers 27/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Structural exposure scores 59 and live distress 6 on the 0–100 scale. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (90/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (59/100), institutional ownership (51/100), mortgage stress (20/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) register low.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.6% year on year, and 20% higher over three years, at 34/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

About 16,447 people live here, median age 40. There are about 10,649 housing units across 48206. The typical home is worth about $116,300 (2.3× income, relatively affordable). 51% of housing is owner-occupied. 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. Around 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 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.