ZIP 49405 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Mason County, Michigan · High Vacancy market
Mason County, Michigan's ZIP 49405 registers 5/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as minimal. What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (15/100), structural risk (11/100), mortgage stress (7/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (7/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) register low. Structural exposure scores 11 and live distress 2 on the 0–100 scale.
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.2% over the trailing year, and 49% higher over three years, at 26/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
The ZIP holds roughly 918 housing units. The vacancy rate is 33.4% — elevated. Population is roughly 1,698 with a median age of 42. Owners hold 93% of homes, renters 7%. Median household income is $69,474, near the U.S. median near $78,000. Around 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 25/100. Rent burden reaches 24% of tenant households. The typical home is worth about $170,200 (2.1× income, relatively affordable). Roughly 12.7% live below the poverty line.
Net-net, 49405 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Parcel-level detail for 49405 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.
No ZIP is too small to score: 49405 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 5/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. 49405 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
49405's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. Practically, 49405 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.
ZIP 49405 distress signals, scored
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.
ZIP 49405 Stress Report snapshot
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 49405, the same set carried on every parcel.
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