ZIP 48472 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 48472 (Sanilac County, Michigan) lands at 18/100 — low on DLRadar's public-record scoring. Leading the profile are construction/permit lag (71/100), structural risk (39/100), mortgage stress (5/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (5/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) register low. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (68/100)). Structurally it carries 39/100, against 1/100 of stress already in motion.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.5% year on year, and 32% higher over three years (phase confidence 32/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

The typical home is worth about $159,400 (2.5× income, relatively affordable). 16.5% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. There are about 699 housing units across 48472. Around 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Vacancy runs 16.7%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 27/100. Households earn a median $61,397 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. 1,444 residents call 48472 home, typically aged 40. Rent burden reaches 26% of tenant households. 86% of housing is owner-occupied.

Net-net, 48472 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.

No ZIP is too small to score: 48472 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 18/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 48472, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

Behind 48472's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. Practically, 48472 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.