ZIP 49043 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 49043's composite property-distress score is 18/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Van Buren County, Michigan. The split runs 43/100 structural to 3/100 active on the ground. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (81/100), climate & FEMA risk (61/100). The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (43/100), construction/permit lag (34/100), institutional ownership (18/100). institutional ownership (18/100) and mortgage stress (10/100) stay muted.

The expansion-phase market in 49043 posted values that rose 5.5% over the year, and 55% higher over three years, at 32/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

The ZIP holds roughly 1,204 housing units. Median household income is $35,500, below the U.S. median near $78,000. The vacancy rate is 31.7% — elevated. Around 12% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. A median home runs $153,300 here, or 4.1 times local income. Around 68% of renters are cost-burdened. About 2,264 people live here, median age 40. Roughly 31.6% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. The tenure split is 55% owner-occupied to 45% rented. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 46/100.

On the whole, 49043 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. No parcel file is published for 49043 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

No ZIP is too small to score: 49043 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. Where the public record is thin for 49043, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

49043's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For an operator, 49043 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.