ZIP 48209 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 48209 (Wayne County, Michigan) at a low 27/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (59/100), institutional ownership (51/100), mortgage stress (20/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) register low. The latent-versus-live split is 59/100 structural and 6/100 already moving. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (90/100).

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.6% year on year, and 33% higher over three years (phase confidence 34/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

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. The poverty rate is 30.1% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Around 10% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The typical home is worth about $89,000 (2.0× income, relatively affordable). 59% of housing is owner-occupied. The vacancy rate is 17.3% — elevated. 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.