ZIP 49656 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Lake County, Michigan's ZIP 49656 registers 8/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as minimal. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (50/100), structural risk (19/100), mortgage stress (13/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (13/100) and institutional ownership (3/100). Structural risk reads 19/100 against active distress of 4/100.

The expansion-phase market in 49656 posted values that rose 6.4% over the year, at 37/100 phase confidence. Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

Population is roughly 2,111 with a median age of 51. Rent burden reaches 15% of tenant households. Owners hold 80% of homes, renters 20%. 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. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 29/100.

On the whole, 49656 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.