ZIP 49444 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Muskegon County, Michigan's ZIP 49444 registers 15/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (70/100). The latent-versus-live split is 33/100 structural and 1/100 already moving. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (45/100), structural risk (33/100), mortgage stress (3/100). mortgage stress (3/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.8% over the trailing year, and 24% higher over three years (phase confidence 47/100). Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

Households earn a median $52,143 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Roughly 20.4% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. About 18% have a four-year degree. Around 41% of renters are cost-burdened. On demographic stress specifically, 49444 scores 33/100. The vacancy rate is 13.2% — elevated. The ZIP holds roughly 11,489 housing units. The tenure split is 70% owner-occupied to 30% rented. 26,228 residents call 49444 home, typically aged 37. A median home runs $165,900 here, or 3.0 times local income.

Taken together, 49444 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.