ZIP 49305 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Mecosta County, Michigan · High Vacancy market
Mecosta County, Michigan's ZIP 49305 registers 22/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (67/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (66/100)). The latent-versus-live split is 49/100 structural and 1/100 already moving. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (49/100), institutional ownership (42/100), construction/permit lag (23/100). By contrast, construction/permit lag (23/100) and mortgage stress (5/100) register low.
The market reads peak — home values rose 4.2% year on year, and 54% higher over three years (phase confidence 26/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
Around 32% of renters are cost-burdened. A median home runs $148,100 here, or 2.5 times local income. Roughly 17.5% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. On demographic stress specifically, 49305 scores 29/100. At $49,536, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Owners hold 86% of homes, renters 14%. About 12% have a four-year degree. About 2,487 people live here, median age 51. The ZIP holds roughly 1,596 housing units. The vacancy rate is 31.7% — elevated.
On the whole, 49305 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Parcel-level detail for 49305 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced.
Big metro or rural, 49305 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 22/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Mecosta County, Michigan and the nation. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 49305 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.
Each component behind 49305 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 22/100 roll-up. Treat 49305 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.
What is driving ZIP 49305’s distress
Unpaid tax, corporate ownership share, insurance cost pressure, NFIP flood risk, construction slowdown, price gaps and auction turnover — plus the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
Snapshot: 49305 by the numbers
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 49305, the same set carried on every parcel.
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The complete 49305 distress and acquisition report
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