ZIP 48215 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 48215 in Wayne County, Michigan carries a composite property-distress score of 33/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (90/100). Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (74/100), construction/permit lag (65/100), institutional ownership (48/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) register low. Latent structural risk is 74/100 while live distress already moving reads 6/100.

The peak-phase market in 48215 posted values that rose 4.2% over the year, and 13% higher over three years, at 26/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

The vacancy rate is 27.8% — elevated. The typical home is worth about $111,000 (3.1× income, relatively affordable). Households earn a median $33,741 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Rent burden reaches 48% of tenant households. Owners hold 49% of homes, renters 51%. About 19% have a four-year degree. About 10,238 people live here, median age 39. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 41/100. There are about 6,208 housing units across 48215. The poverty rate is 39.2% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate.

Taken together, 48215 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. 48215 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

Big metro or rural, 48215 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 33/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Wayne County, Michigan and the nation. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 48215 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

The 33/100 figure for 48215 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. The point of the 48215 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.