ZIP 49057 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Van Buren County, Michigan's ZIP 49057 registers 17/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (81/100), climate & FEMA risk (61/100). On the structural side it scores 40/100, with 3/100 of stress already active. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (40/100), construction/permit lag (25/100), institutional ownership (18/100). institutional ownership (18/100) and mortgage stress (10/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 6.4% over the trailing year, and 8% higher over three years (phase confidence 37/100). Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

Households earn a median $56,375 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. 6,405 residents call 49057 home, typically aged 34. Around 23% of renters are cost-burdened. About 10% have a four-year degree. Roughly 10.7% live below the poverty line. On demographic stress specifically, 49057 scores 25/100. The ZIP holds roughly 2,566 housing units. A median home runs $118,400 here, or 2.0 times local income. The tenure split is 78% owner-occupied to 22% rented. The vacancy rate is 8.6%.

Overall, 49057 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.