ZIP 49968 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 49968's composite property-distress score is 8/100 - DLRadar classes that as minimal for Gogebic County, Michigan. Leading the profile are construction/permit lag (44/100), structural risk (18/100), mortgage stress (8/100). mortgage stress (8/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) stay muted. The latent-versus-live split is 18/100 structural and 2/100 already moving.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.5% over the trailing year, at 32/100 phase confidence. Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

Vacancy runs 29.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The typical home is worth about $91,800 (1.5× income, relatively affordable). There are about 1,379 housing units across 49968. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 29/100. 2,305 residents call 49968 home, typically aged 47. Households earn a median $51,607 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Owners hold 86% of homes, renters 14%. About 19% have a four-year degree. Around 51% of renters are cost-burdened. Roughly 18.9% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory.

On the whole, 49968 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. 49968 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 49968's 8/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Gogebic County, Michigan or any ZIP coast to coast. Where the public record is thin for 49968, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

The 8/100 figure for 49968 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. Practically, 49968 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.