ZIP 48218 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 48218 (Wayne County, Michigan) at a low 27/100 for overall property distress. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (90/100). On the structural side it scores 59/100, with 6/100 of stress already active. 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 market reads expansion — home values rose 5.6% year on year, and 14% higher over three years (phase confidence 34/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

At $32,683, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The poverty rate is 40.0% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. About 7,096 people live here, median age 37. 53% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 58% of renters are cost-burdened. The ZIP holds roughly 3,132 housing units. The vacancy rate is 11.2%. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 37/100. Around 7% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The typical home is worth about $65,200 (1.7× income, relatively affordable).

Net-net, 48218 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.