ZIP 48224 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Wayne County, Michigan's ZIP 48224 registers 27/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Structural exposure scores 59 and live distress 6 on the 0–100 scale. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (59/100), institutional ownership (51/100), mortgage stress (20/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) register low. 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 10% higher over three years, at 34/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

The typical home is worth about $88,700 (1.8× income, relatively affordable). Vacancy runs 19.8%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. There are about 17,234 housing units across 48224. Rent burden reaches 55% of tenant households. The poverty rate is 32.6% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 36/100. 54% of housing is owner-occupied. At $42,963, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. About 38,771 people live here, median age 33. Around 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Net-net, 48224 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.