ZIP 49738 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

ZIP code 49738 in Crawford County, Michigan carries a composite property-distress score of 13/100 — a minimal reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. The latent-versus-live split is 30/100 structural and 3/100 already moving. What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (30/100), mortgage stress (9/100). mortgage stress (9/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 6.4% over the trailing year, and 32% higher over three years (phase confidence 37/100). Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

The vacancy rate is 39.9% — elevated. The ZIP holds roughly 7,271 housing units. Roughly 13.9% live below the poverty line. Around 34% of renters are cost-burdened. About 21% have a four-year degree. 9,599 residents call 49738 home, typically aged 51. Households earn a median $57,573 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. On demographic stress specifically, 49738 scores 30/100. A median home runs $168,800 here, or 2.7 times local income. The tenure split is 79% owner-occupied to 21% rented.

Taken together, 49738 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.