ZIP 49444 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 49444's composite property-distress score is 28/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Muskegon County, Michigan. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (70/100), FEMA disaster exposure (60/100). Structural risk reads 63/100 against active distress of 1/100. Its standout signals are construction/permit lag (73/100), structural risk (63/100), institutional ownership (45/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (3/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.1% over the trailing year, and 24% higher over three years (phase confidence 42/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Median household income is $52,143, below the U.S. median near $78,000. 20.4% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. About 18% have a four-year degree. Rent burden reaches 41% of tenant households. On demographic stress specifically, 49444 scores 33/100. Vacancy runs 13.2%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The ZIP holds roughly 11,489 housing units. Owners hold 70% of homes, renters 30%. Population is roughly 26,228 with a median age of 37. Home values center near $165,900, an affordability ratio of 3.0× — accessible.

Taken together, 49444 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. No parcel file is published for 49444 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

Whether 49444 runs hot or quiet, its 28/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 49444 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Muskegon County, Michigan or nationwide. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 49444, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

49444's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. The point of the 49444 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.