ZIP 49896 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Menominee County, Michigan, ZIP 49896 scores 21 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. The split runs 47/100 structural to 2/100 active on the ground. Leading the profile are structural risk (47/100), construction/permit lag (46/100), institutional ownership (42/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (5/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (64/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.2% over the trailing year, at 26/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

The typical home is worth about $164,800 (2.9× income, relatively affordable). Rent burden reaches 16% of tenant households. 1,718 residents call 49896 home, typically aged 41. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 29/100. The tenure split is 73% owner-occupied to 27% rented. There are about 714 housing units across 49896. Vacancy runs 23.7%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Households earn a median $56,979 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The poverty rate is 15.6%. Around 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Net-net, 49896 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. There is no property file for 49896 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 49896's 21/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Menominee County, Michigan or any ZIP coast to coast. Where the public record is thin for 49896, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

The 21/100 for 49896 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. Practically, 49896 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.