ZIP 49279 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

ZIP code 49279 in Lenawee County, Michigan carries a composite property-distress score of 13/100 — a minimal reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (26/100), construction/permit lag (17/100), mortgage stress (3/100). mortgage stress (3/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) stay muted. The latent-versus-live split is 26/100 structural and 1/100 already moving. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (71/100).

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.6% over the trailing year, and 12% higher over three years (phase confidence 34/100). Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

Households earn a median $69,231 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. Roughly 10.9% live below the poverty line. On demographic stress specifically, 49279 scores 32/100. The vacancy rate is 13.8% — elevated. Around 73% of renters are cost-burdened. About 13% have a four-year degree. The ZIP holds roughly 444 housing units. The tenure split is 93% owner-occupied to 7% rented. 882 residents call 49279 home, typically aged 49. A median home runs $162,800 here, or 2.4 times local income.

Taken together, 49279 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.