ZIP 49043 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Van Buren County, Michigan's ZIP 49043 registers 17/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Structural risk reads 40/100 against active distress of 3/100. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (81/100), climate & FEMA risk (61/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (40/100), construction/permit lag (25/100), institutional ownership (18/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (18/100) and mortgage stress (10/100) register low.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 6.4% year on year, and 55% higher over three years, at 37/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

There are about 1,204 housing units across 49043. At $35,500, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Vacancy runs 31.7%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Around 12% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The typical home is worth about $153,300 (4.1× income). Rent burden reaches 68% of tenant households. About 2,264 people live here, median age 40. The poverty rate is 31.6% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. 55% of housing is owner-occupied. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 46/100.

Net-net, 49043 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.