ZIP 49021 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

ZIP code 49021 in Eaton County, Michigan carries a composite property-distress score of 18/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (63/100). What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (49/100), structural risk (39/100), institutional ownership (18/100). institutional ownership (18/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) stay muted. Structural risk reads 39/100 against active distress of 2/100.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.5% over the trailing year, and 7% higher over three years, at 36/100 phase confidence. Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

Vacancy runs 7.2%. The tenure split is 86% owner-occupied to 14% rented. A median home runs $184,400 here, or 2.3 times local income. There are about 2,583 housing units across 49021. Households earn a median $78,665 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. About 15% have a four-year degree. 6,467 residents call 49021 home, typically aged 39. On demographic stress specifically, 49021 scores 24/100. Rent burden reaches 26% of tenant households. Roughly 8.6% live below the poverty line.

On balance, 49021 reads as a higher-equity, stable market where distress is selective and worth pinpointing parcel by parcel. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.