ZIP 49255 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Branch County, Michigan's ZIP 49255 registers 12/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as minimal. On the structural side it scores 27/100, with 2/100 of stress already active. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (39/100), structural risk (27/100), mortgage stress (5/100). mortgage stress (5/100) and institutional ownership (5/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.6% over the trailing year, and 30% higher over three years (phase confidence 34/100). Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

Households earn a median $48,125 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Roughly 38.0% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. 2,148 residents call 49255 home, typically aged 27. The tenure split is 89% owner-occupied to 11% rented. The ZIP holds roughly 837 housing units. On demographic stress specifically, 49255 scores 32/100. About 10% have a four-year degree. A median home runs $141,400 here, or 2.5 times local income. Around 17% of renters are cost-burdened. The vacancy rate is 26.9% — elevated.

Taken together, 49255 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.