ZIP 49024 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Kalamazoo County, Michigan · Distress market
On DLRadar's 0-100 distress scale, ZIP 49024 in Kalamazoo County, Michigan comes in at 29, a low composite-distress reading. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (83/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (68/100). Structurally it carries 64/100, against 3/100 of stress already in motion. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (64/100), construction/permit lag (56/100), institutional ownership (47/100). mortgage stress (8/100) stay muted.
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 0.6% over the trailing year, and 16% higher over three years (phase confidence 35/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
Around 31% of renters are cost-burdened. 30,937 residents call 49024 home, typically aged 37. At $86,427, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. The vacancy rate is 3.9%. Roughly 7.4% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. The tenure split is 67% owner-occupied to 33% rented. About 51% have a four-year degree. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 24/100. The ZIP holds roughly 13,274 housing units. The typical home is worth about $267,400 (2.9× income, relatively affordable).
Net-net, 49024 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
Big metro or rural, 49024 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 29/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Kalamazoo County, Michigan and the nation. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 49024 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.
The 29/100 for 49024 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. Treat 49024 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.
What is driving ZIP 49024’s distress
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties are listed in full, with owner, address, APN, per-parcel score and exit-velocity read.
ZIP 49024 Stress Report snapshot
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 49024, the same set carried on every parcel.
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See every distressed parcel in 49024
The full 49024 file lists each distressed parcel with owner, address, APN, per-property score, bank exposure and exit-velocity read, and carries it straight through to owner and lender records. Refreshed continuously.
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