ZIP 49340 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Mecosta County, Michigan's ZIP 49340 registers 16/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Structural risk reads 36/100 against active distress of 1/100. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (61/100), structural risk (36/100), mortgage stress (5/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (5/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (67/100).

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.6% year on year, and 11% higher over three years, at 34/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

The typical home is worth about $190,900 (2.7× income, relatively affordable). At $55,568, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. About 2,479 people live here, median age 51. Vacancy runs 16.0%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 27/100. There are about 1,291 housing units across 49340. 83% of housing is owner-occupied. The poverty rate is 14.8%. Rent burden reaches 29% of tenant households. Around 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Net-net, 49340 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.