ZIP 49689 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Manistee County, Michigan's ZIP 49689 registers 14/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as minimal. The most distinctive pressure shows up in institutional ownership (34/100), structural risk (30/100), construction/permit lag (16/100). By contrast, construction/permit lag (16/100) and mortgage stress (7/100) register low. Structurally it carries 30/100, against 2/100 of stress already in motion.

The expansion-phase market in 49689 posted values that rose 5.3% over the year, and 25% higher over three years (phase confidence 31/100). Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

The ZIP holds roughly 1,647 housing units. Households earn a median $62,138 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. About 1,791 people live here, median age 48. Around 31% of renters are cost-burdened. A median home runs $155,200 here, or 2.3 times local income. Educational attainment sits at 22% bachelor's-or-above. 92% of housing is owner-occupied. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 29/100. Vacancy runs 55.5%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Roughly 11.4% live below the poverty line.

Net-net, 49689 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. There is no property file for 49689 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.

Big metro or rural, 49689 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 14/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Manistee County, Michigan and the nation. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 49689 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

The 14/100 for 49689 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. For a buyer, 49689 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.