ZIP 48209 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Wayne County, Michigan · High Vacancy market
Wayne County, Michigan's ZIP 48209 registers 33/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (74/100), construction/permit lag (65/100), institutional ownership (48/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) register low. On the structural side it scores 74/100, with 6/100 of stress already active. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (90/100).
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.2% over the trailing year, and 33% higher over three years (phase confidence 26/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 34/100. Around 42% of renters are cost-burdened. At $42,152, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. About 27,534 people live here, median age 30. Roughly 30.1% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. About 10% have a four-year degree. The typical home is worth about $89,000 (2.0× income, relatively affordable). The tenure split is 59% owner-occupied to 41% rented. Vacancy runs 17.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The ZIP holds roughly 10,847 housing units.
Net-net, 48209 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.
Whether 48209 runs hot or quiet, its 33/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 48209 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Wayne County, Michigan or nationwide. 48209 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
48209's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. Practically, 48209 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.
Signal-by-signal read on 48209
Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties are broken out by owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read inside DLRadar.
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