ZIP 49088 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 49088 in Kalamazoo County, Michigan carries a composite property-distress score of 30/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Environmental exposure also runs high (flood (NFIP) exposure (89/100), climate & FEMA risk (83/100)). Latent structural risk is 67/100 while live distress already moving reads 3/100. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (67/100), construction/permit lag (57/100), institutional ownership (48/100). mortgage stress (8/100) stay muted.

The peak-phase market in 49088 posted values that rose 0.6% over the year, and 24% higher over three years (phase confidence 35/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 16/100. A median home runs $284,300 here, or 2.5 times local income. Rent burden reaches 0% of tenant households. Educational attainment sits at 33% bachelor's-or-above. 3.4% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. There are about 1,582 housing units across 49088. Households earn a median $103,140 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. About 3,747 people live here, median age 44. Owners hold 96% of homes, renters 4%. The vacancy rate is 0.8%.

Overall, 49088 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. No parcel file is published for 49088 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

The 49088 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 30/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 49088 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Kalamazoo County, Michigan. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 49088 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

49088'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, 49088 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.