ZIP 49055 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 49055's composite property-distress score is 16/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Van Buren County, Michigan. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (62/100). The split runs 35/100 structural to 3/100 active on the ground. The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (35/100), construction/permit lag (21/100), institutional ownership (15/100). institutional ownership (15/100) and mortgage stress (10/100) stay muted.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.4% year on year, and 26% higher over three years, at 31/100 phase confidence. Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

Rent burden reaches 32% of tenant households. Owners hold 85% of homes, renters 15%. At $65,717, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. About 18% have a four-year degree. The poverty rate is 14.3%. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 27/100. Vacancy runs 21.1%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. 5,963 residents call 49055 home, typically aged 46. There are about 3,060 housing units across 49055. Home values center near $163,600, an affordability ratio of 2.5× — accessible.

Net-net, 49055 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.

The 49055 read uses the identical scoring model applied coast to coast, which means its 16/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 49055 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Van Buren County, Michigan. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 49055 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

Each component behind 49055 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 16/100 roll-up. Treat 49055 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.