ZIP 49053 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 49053 (Kalamazoo County, Michigan) lands at 29/100 — low on DLRadar's distress scoring. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (83/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (68/100), FEMA disaster exposure (60/100). The split runs 64/100 structural to 3/100 active on the ground. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (64/100), construction/permit lag (56/100), institutional ownership (47/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (8/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 0.6% year on year, and 22% higher over three years, at 35/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Around 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Owners hold 87% of homes, renters 13%. Rent burden reaches 51% of tenant households. A median home runs $242,700 here, or 2.8 times local income. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 28/100. About 7,255 people live here, median age 40. Median household income is $80,074, near the U.S. median near $78,000. The vacancy rate is 7.9%. Roughly 9.0% live below the poverty line. The ZIP holds roughly 3,128 housing units.

Overall, 49053 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. No parcel file is published for 49053 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

The number is not local guesswork: 49053's 29/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Sparse data for 49053 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

49053's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For an operator, 49053 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.