ZIP 49643 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Benzie County, Michigan · High Vacancy market
ZIP 49643's composite property-distress score is 21/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Benzie County, Michigan. What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (61/100), structural risk (48/100), institutional ownership (40/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (7/100). On the structural side it scores 48/100, with 2/100 of stress already active.
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 3.1% over the trailing year, and 23% higher over three years, at 27/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
The typical home is worth about $271,300 (3.0× income, relatively affordable). Owners hold 88% of homes, renters 12%. Population is roughly 7,486 with a median age of 40. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 24/100. 9.1% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Rent burden reaches 21% of tenant households. Vacancy runs 17.2%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Households earn a median $81,061 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. There are about 3,490 housing units across 49643. Around 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.
Taken together, 49643 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. No parcel file is published for 49643 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.
The number is not local guesswork: 49643's 21/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Sparse data for 49643 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.
The 21/100 for 49643 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. Treat 49643 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.
What is driving ZIP 49643’s distress
Unpaid tax, corporate ownership share, insurance cost pressure, NFIP flood risk, construction slowdown, price gaps and auction turnover — plus the 0 individual distressed properties are broken out by owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read inside DLRadar.
Snapshot: 49643 by the numbers
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 49643, the same set carried on every parcel.
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