ZIP 49061 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Cass County, Michigan · High Vacancy market
Scored on a fixed 0-100 scale, 49061 (Cass County, Michigan) returns a low composite of 17/100. On the structural side it scores 41/100, with 3/100 of stress already active. The sharpest non-environmental signals are construction/permit lag (55/100), structural risk (41/100), institutional ownership (15/100). institutional ownership (15/100) and mortgage stress (10/100) stay muted. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (66/100).
The expansion-phase market in 49061 posted values that rose 6.1% over the year, and 7% higher over three years, at 36/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.
About 1,924 people live here, median age 36. Around 22% of renters are cost-burdened. The typical home is worth about $223,500 (2.6× income, relatively affordable). The poverty rate is 11.4%. There are about 834 housing units across 49061. Median household income is $76,772, near the U.S. median near $78,000. The tenure split is 88% owner-occupied to 12% rented. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 26/100. The vacancy rate is 21.1% — elevated. About 13% have a four-year degree.
Taken together, 49061 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. No parcel file is published for 49061 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.
Big metro or rural, 49061 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 17/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Cass County, Michigan and the nation. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 49061, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.
49061'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. In workflow terms, 49061 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.
What is driving ZIP 49061’s distress
Tax arrears, institutional buyers, insurance load, flood exposure, stalled construction, dislocated pricing and auction velocity — together with the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.
ZIP 49061 Stress Report snapshot
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 49061, the same set carried on every parcel.
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