ZIP 49508 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Kent County, Michigan's ZIP 49508 registers 28/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (79/100)). Its standout signals are structural risk (61/100), institutional ownership (45/100), construction/permit lag (28/100). By contrast, construction/permit lag (28/100) and mortgage stress (18/100) register low. On the structural side it scores 61/100, with 5/100 of stress already active.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 3.9% over the trailing year, and 17% higher over three years (phase confidence 25/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

41,924 residents call 49508 home, typically aged 36. 61% of housing is owner-occupied. The poverty rate is 11.6%. Vacancy runs 3.6%. The typical home is worth about $281,600 (4.0× income, relatively affordable). Educational attainment sits at 33% bachelor's-or-above. Around 46% of renters are cost-burdened. At $65,328, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The ZIP holds roughly 16,411 housing units. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 33/100.

On balance 49508 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. 49508 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 49508's 28/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Kent County, Michigan or any ZIP coast to coast. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 49508 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

49508'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 49508 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.