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ZIP 49656 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Lake County, Michigan · High Vacancy market

On DLRadar's 0-100 public-record scale, ZIP 49656 in Lake County, Michigan comes in at 11, a minimal composite-distress reading. The sharpest non-environmental signals are construction/permit lag (32/100), institutional ownership (28/100), structural risk (24/100). By contrast, structural risk (24/100) and mortgage stress (13/100) register low. The latent-versus-live split is 24/100 structural and 4/100 already moving.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.5% year on year (phase confidence 32/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

About 2,111 people live here, median age 51. Rent burden reaches 15% of tenant households. The tenure split is 80% owner-occupied to 20% rented. Educational attainment sits at 11% bachelor's-or-above. Vacancy runs 50.8%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. There are about 1,487 housing units across 49656. Home values center near $135,500, an affordability ratio of 2.2× — accessible. 16.8% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Median household income is $55,781, below the U.S. median near $78,000. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 29/100.

Taken together, 49656 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. No parcel file is published for 49656 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

No ZIP is too small to score: 49656 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 11/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Sparse data for 49656 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

49656's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For an operator, 49656 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.

11/100
Composite stress
24/100
Structural risk
4/100
Distress activity

Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 49656

Foreclosure activity0
Mortgage stress13
Climate / FEMA risk18
+9 more distress dimensions scored for this ZIP

Unpaid tax, corporate ownership share, insurance cost pressure, NFIP flood risk, construction slowdown, price gaps and auction turnover — plus the 0 individual distressed properties (owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read) are in the full DLRadar report.

The 49656 distress snapshot

Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 49656, drawn from the same report attached to each property.

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