ZIP 49601 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Wexford County, Michigan's ZIP 49601 registers 9/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as minimal. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (42/100), structural risk (20/100), mortgage stress (5/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (5/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) register low. Structural risk reads 20/100 against active distress of 2/100.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.6% year on year, and 27% higher over three years, at 34/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

79% of housing is owner-occupied. At $65,704, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. There are about 10,752 housing units across 49601. Around 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Vacancy runs 17.0%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Rent burden reaches 36% of tenant households. About 22,121 people live here, median age 43. The poverty rate is 12.0%. The typical home is worth about $174,000 (2.5× income, relatively affordable). The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 27/100.

Net-net, 49601 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.