ZIP 49879 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 49879's composite property-distress score is 21/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Marquette County, Michigan. Leading the profile are construction/permit lag (51/100), structural risk (45/100), institutional ownership (31/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (31/100) and mortgage stress (5/100) register low. The split runs 45/100 structural to 1/100 active on the ground. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (63/100)).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.7% over the trailing year (phase confidence 28/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Median household income is $52,188, below the U.S. median near $78,000. About 1,105 people live here, median age 60. 13.0% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Educational attainment sits at 17% bachelor's-or-above. Rent burden reaches 54% of tenant households. There are about 970 housing units across 49879. Vacancy runs 44.7%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The typical home is worth about $97,500 (1.7× income, relatively affordable). The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 30/100. The tenure split is 88% owner-occupied to 12% rented.

Net-net, 49879 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. While 49879 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

Big metro or rural, 49879 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 21/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Marquette County, Michigan and the nation. Sparse data for 49879 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

49879'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. The point of the 49879 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.