ZIP 48227 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 48227 (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). The latent-versus-live split is 59/100 structural and 6/100 already moving. 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 18% higher over three years (phase confidence 34/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

At $36,221, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The poverty rate is 31.2% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. The typical home is worth about $75,100 (2.0× income, relatively affordable). 57% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 55% of renters are cost-burdened. Around 12% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The vacancy rate is 22.2% — elevated. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 36/100. The ZIP holds roughly 20,118 housing units. About 39,474 people live here, median age 38.

Net-net, 48227 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.