ZIP 49459 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 49459 in Oceana County, Michigan carries a composite property-distress score of 12/100 — a minimal reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. The latent-versus-live split is 27/100 structural and 2/100 already moving. What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (63/100), structural risk (27/100), mortgage stress (8/100). mortgage stress (8/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 6.4% over the trailing year (phase confidence 37/100). Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

The vacancy rate is 44.1% — elevated. The ZIP holds roughly 925 housing units. A median home runs $108,300 here, or 1.7 times local income. Around 46% of renters are cost-burdened. About 14% have a four-year degree. On demographic stress specifically, 49459 scores 32/100. Households earn a median $57,773 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. 1,551 residents call 49459 home, typically aged 38. Roughly 21.3% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. The tenure split is 86% owner-occupied to 14% rented.

Taken together, 49459 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.