ZIP 49201 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 49201 in Jackson County, Michigan carries a composite property-distress score of 16/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (77/100). The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (36/100), construction/permit lag (26/100), institutional ownership (8/100). institutional ownership (8/100) and mortgage stress (5/100) stay muted. On the structural side it scores 36/100, with 1/100 of stress already active.

The expansion-phase market in 49201 posted values that rose 5.8% over the year, and 17% higher over three years, at 31/100 phase confidence. Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

About 49,114 people live here, median age 42. Vacancy runs 8.3%. Median household income is $71,714, near the U.S. median near $78,000. On demographic stress specifically, 49201 scores 27/100. The typical home is worth about $215,900 (2.8× income, relatively affordable). Roughly 11.5% live below the poverty line. The tenure split is 74% owner-occupied to 26% rented. Educational attainment sits at 23% bachelor's-or-above. The ZIP holds roughly 17,904 housing units. Around 33% of renters are cost-burdened.

On balance 49201 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

The number is not local guesswork: 49201's 16/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Sparse data for 49201 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

Behind 49201's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. For a buyer, 49201 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.