ZIP 49268 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Composite property distress in 49268 (Lenawee County, Michigan) lands at 13/100 — minimal on DLRadar's public-record scoring. The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (26/100), construction/permit lag (17/100), mortgage stress (3/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (3/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (71/100). The latent-versus-live split is 26/100 structural and 1/100 already moving.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.6% year on year, and 20% higher over three years (phase confidence 34/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

At $87,250, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. The poverty rate is 12.8%. The vacancy rate is 10.4%. Around 14% of renters are cost-burdened. About 1,026 people live here, median age 49. The ZIP holds roughly 450 housing units. The typical home is worth about $164,600 (1.9× income, relatively affordable). The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 21/100. Around 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 91% of housing is owner-occupied.

Overall 49268 looks resilient on the surface, so the edge is isolating individual stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.