ZIP 49841 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Marquette County, Michigan, ZIP 49841 scores 23 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. Latent structural risk is 49/100 while live distress already moving reads 1/100. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (69/100). Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (56/100), structural risk (49/100), institutional ownership (32/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (32/100) and mortgage stress (4/100) register low.

The market reads peak — home values rose 4.2% year on year, and 23% higher over three years (phase confidence 26/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Population is roughly 7,359 with a median age of 42. Vacancy runs 23.8%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The poverty rate is 12.3%. Rent burden reaches 29% of tenant households. Home values center near $166,800, an affordability ratio of 2.5× — accessible. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 28/100. There are about 3,917 housing units across 49841. At $61,337, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. 71% of housing is owner-occupied. About 24% have a four-year degree.

Net-net, 49841 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 49841's 23/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Marquette County, Michigan or any ZIP coast to coast. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 49841 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

Behind 49841's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. For an operator, 49841 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.