ZIP 49249 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

On DLRadar's 0-100 public-record scale, ZIP 49249 in Hillsdale County, Michigan comes in at 10, a minimal composite-distress reading. Leading the profile are structural risk (21/100), institutional ownership (8/100), mortgage stress (6/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (6/100) and construction/permit lag (1/100) register low. Latent structural risk is 21/100 while live distress already moving reads 2/100.

The market reads peak — home values rose 4.3% year on year, and 36% higher over three years (phase confidence 26/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

A median home runs $224,000 here, or 2.6 times local income. Vacancy runs 20.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. 3,433 residents call 49249 home, typically aged 50. Rent burden reaches 8% of tenant households. On demographic stress specifically, 49249 scores 21/100. The ZIP holds roughly 1,763 housing units. The tenure split is 91% owner-occupied to 9% rented. The poverty rate is 5.0% — low. About 27% have a four-year degree. At $84,507, median income runs near typical U.S. levels.

On the whole, 49249 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. No parcel file is published for 49249 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

The 49249 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 10/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 49249 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Hillsdale County, Michigan. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 49249, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

The 10/100 for 49249 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. Treat 49249 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.