ZIP 49618 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 49618 (Wexford County, Michigan) at a minimal 9/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (42/100), structural risk (21/100), mortgage stress (5/100). mortgage stress (5/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) stay muted. Structural exposure scores 21 and live distress 1 on the 0–100 scale.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.6% over the trailing year, and 33% higher over three years, at 34/100 phase confidence. Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

A median home runs $198,600 here, or 3.1 times local income. The tenure split is 88% owner-occupied to 12% rented. 829 residents call 49618 home, typically aged 51. About 16% have a four-year degree. Roughly 22.0% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. On demographic stress specifically, 49618 scores 31/100. Vacancy runs 20.8%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. There are about 419 housing units across 49618. Households earn a median $49,712 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Rent burden reaches 38% of tenant households.

Taken together, 49618 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.