ZIP 49061 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Cass County, Michigan's ZIP 49061 registers 19/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Structural risk reads 46/100 against active distress of 3/100. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (57/100), structural risk (46/100), institutional ownership (20/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (20/100) and mortgage stress (10/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (88/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 3.4% year on year, and 7% higher over three years, at 39/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

About 1,924 people live here, median age 36. Rent burden reaches 22% of tenant households. 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. At $76,772, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. 88% of housing is owner-occupied. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 26/100. Vacancy runs 21.1%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Around 13% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Net-net, 49061 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.