ZIP 49891 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

ZIP code 49891 in Alger County, Michigan carries a composite property-distress score of 8/100 — a minimal reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. The latent-versus-live split is 19/100 structural and 4/100 already moving. What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (53/100), structural risk (19/100), institutional ownership (16/100). institutional ownership (16/100) and mortgage stress (14/100) stay muted.

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

Households earn a median $51,250 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The ZIP holds roughly 384 housing units. Roughly 10.4% live below the poverty line. About 14% have a four-year degree. Around 15% of renters are cost-burdened. A median home runs $126,300 here, or 2.8 times local income. The vacancy rate is 42.8% — elevated. 605 residents call 49891 home, typically aged 50. On demographic stress specifically, 49891 scores 27/100. The tenure split is 94% owner-occupied to 6% rented.

Taken together, 49891 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.