ZIP 48217 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

On DLRadar's 0-100 public-record scale, ZIP 48217 in Wayne County, Michigan comes in at 33, a moderate composite-distress reading. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (90/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up 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.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.2% over the trailing year, at 26/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

The ZIP holds roughly 3,139 housing units. 16.0% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Home values center near $65,500, an affordability ratio of 1.0× — accessible. At $46,671, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The tenure split is 60% owner-occupied to 40% rented. Vacancy runs 12.9%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 28/100. Around 51% of renters are cost-burdened. Population is roughly 6,437 with a median age of 36. Educational attainment sits at 12% bachelor's-or-above.

Net-net, 48217 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. While 48217 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

The 48217 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 33/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 48217 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Wayne County, Michigan. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 48217, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

48217's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For an operator, 48217 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.