ZIP 48218 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 48218 (Wayne County, Michigan) lands at 33/100 — moderate on DLRadar's public-record scoring. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (90/100). Structural risk reads 74/100 against active distress of 6/100. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (74/100), construction/permit lag (65/100), institutional ownership (48/100). mortgage stress (20/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.2% over the trailing year, and 14% higher over three years (phase confidence 26/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Median household income is $32,683, below the U.S. median near $78,000. 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. Rent burden reaches 58% of tenant households. There are about 3,132 housing units across 48218. The vacancy rate is 11.2%. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 37/100. About 7% have a four-year degree. A median home runs $65,200 here, or 1.7 times local income.

Net-net, 48218 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. No parcel file is published for 48218 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

No ZIP is too small to score: 48218 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 33/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 48218, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

The 33/100 for 48218 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. In workflow terms, 48218 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.