ZIP 49331 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Kent County, Michigan's ZIP 49331 registers 29/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (86/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (80/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (64/100), institutional ownership (50/100), construction/permit lag (41/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (18/100) register low. Structural exposure scores 64 and live distress 6 on the 0–100 scale.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.5% year on year, and 22% higher over three years, at 33/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

Vacancy runs 4.3%. The typical home is worth about $315,300 (3.2× income, relatively affordable). The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 26/100. Around 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. About 17,419 people live here, median age 39. At $92,443, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. There are about 7,086 housing units across 49331. Rent burden reaches 43% of tenant households. 85% of housing is owner-occupied. The poverty rate is 5.1% — low.

Net-net, 49331 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.