ZIP 48749 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

On DLRadar's 0-100 public-record scale, ZIP 48749 in Arenac County, Michigan comes in at 5, a minimal composite-distress reading. Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (10/100), mortgage stress (7/100), construction/permit lag (6/100). construction/permit lag (6/100) and institutional ownership (5/100) stay muted. Structural exposure scores 10 and live distress 2 on the 0–100 scale.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.5% over the trailing year, and 10% higher over three years, at 32/100 phase confidence. Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

Population is roughly 1,214 with a median age of 44. Vacancy runs 20.7%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The poverty rate is 11.8%. On demographic stress specifically, 48749 scores 29/100. 93% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 46% of renters are cost-burdened. The typical home is worth about $129,600 (2.3× income, relatively affordable). Median household income is $50,833, below the U.S. median near $78,000. The ZIP holds roughly 641 housing units. Around 9% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Net-net, 48749 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. 48749 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

The 48749 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 5/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 48749 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Arenac County, Michigan. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 48749 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

Each component behind 48749 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 5/100 roll-up. For a buyer, 48749 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.