ZIP 49229 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 49229's composite property-distress score is 17/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Lenawee County, Michigan. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (73/100)). Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (45/100), structural risk (37/100), institutional ownership (8/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (8/100) and mortgage stress (5/100) register low. Structural exposure scores 37 and live distress 1 on the 0–100 scale.

The market reads peak — home values rose 4.0% year on year, and 5% higher over three years, at 27/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

The typical home is worth about $226,600 (2.4× income, relatively affordable). Vacancy runs 10.4%. The ZIP holds roughly 1,485 housing units. Households earn a median $92,150 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. 89% of housing is owner-occupied. Roughly 6.4% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. Educational attainment sits at 18% bachelor's-or-above. Around 63% of renters are cost-burdened. Population is roughly 3,538 with a median age of 46. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 29/100.

Broadly, 49229 is a steadier market — the deals are the exceptions, not the rule. There is no property file for 49229 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.

No ZIP is too small to score: 49229 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 17/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 49229 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

Behind 49229'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, 49229 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.