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ZIP 53208 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Milwaukee County, Wisconsin · High Vacancy market

Milwaukee County, Wisconsin's ZIP 53208 registers 38/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Structural exposure scores 86 and live distress 6 on the 0–100 scale. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (95/100), FEMA disaster exposure (71/100). The pressure is most legible in construction/permit lag (95/100), structural risk (86/100), institutional ownership (59/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) register low.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.7% over the trailing year, and 28% higher over three years, at 33/100 phase confidence. Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

There are about 13,806 housing units across 53208. Educational attainment sits at 31% bachelor's-or-above. Owners hold 40% of homes, renters 60%. Vacancy runs 15.2%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. A median home runs $204,500 here, or 3.9 times local income. Roughly 25.0% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. At $50,585, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 38/100. Population is roughly 27,407 with a median age of 33. Around 47% of renters are cost-burdened.

On the whole, 53208 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. There is no property file for 53208 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.

Big metro or rural, 53208 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 38/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin and the nation. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 53208 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

Each component behind 53208 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 38/100 roll-up. Treat 53208 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.

38/100
Composite stress
86/100
Structural risk
6/100
Distress activity

Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 53208

Foreclosure activity0
Mortgage stress20
Climate / FEMA risk98
Nine more distress signals are scored here

Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.

Snapshot: 53208 by the numbers

53208 live: composite distress, market phase, housing detail and lender pressure, identical to the per-property report.

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