ZIP 48226 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Wayne County, Michigan · High Vacancy market
On DLRadar's 0-100 distress scale, ZIP 48226 in Wayne County, Michigan comes in at 34, a moderate composite-distress reading. Structural risk reads 77/100 against active distress of 6/100. What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (77/100), construction/permit lag (73/100), institutional ownership (51/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (85/100), FEMA disaster exposure (60/100).
The market reads peak — home values rose 4.2% year on year (phase confidence 26/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
Population is roughly 6,893 with a median age of 34. The ZIP holds roughly 5,527 housing units. The vacancy rate is 19.6% — elevated. Owners hold 9% of homes, renters 91%. Around 38% of renters are cost-burdened. Around 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The typical home is worth about $324,500 (4.4× income). 17.1% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 38/100. Households earn a median $69,813 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure.
On the whole, 48226 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. There is no property file for 48226 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.
The number is not local guesswork: 48226's 34/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 48226 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.
Each component behind 48226 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 34/100 roll-up. The point of the 48226 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.
Signal-by-signal read on 48226
Delinquent tax, institutional holdings, insurance strain, flood/NFIP exposure, build-out lag, price dislocation and auction pace — along with the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
ZIP 48226 Stress Report snapshot
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 48226, the same set carried on every parcel.
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