ZIP 49884 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 49884's composite property-distress score is 6/100 - DLRadar classes that as minimal for Alger County, Michigan. Structural risk reads 14/100 against active distress of 3/100. What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (38/100), structural risk (14/100), mortgage stress (11/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (11/100) and institutional ownership (10/100).

The expansion-phase market in 49884 posted values that rose 5.5% over the year, at 32/100 phase confidence. Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

Households earn a median $40,313 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Educational attainment sits at 6% bachelor's-or-above. The typical home is worth about $164,100 (3.5× income, relatively affordable). Rent burden reaches 7% of tenant households. The poverty rate is 23.9% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Vacancy runs 36.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. 586 residents call 49884 home, typically aged 55. On demographic stress specifically, 49884 scores 33/100. The ZIP holds roughly 481 housing units. Owners hold 70% of homes, renters 30%.

Net-net, 49884 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. No parcel file is published for 49884 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

No ZIP is too small to score: 49884 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 6/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 49884, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

The 6/100 for 49884 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. In workflow terms, 49884 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.