ZIP 53209 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 53209 (Milwaukee County, Wisconsin) lands at 37/100 — moderate on DLRadar's distress scoring. Its standout signals are construction/permit lag (85/100), structural risk (83/100), institutional ownership (57/100). mortgage stress (20/100) stay muted. Latent structural risk is 83/100 while live distress already moving reads 6/100. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (95/100), FEMA disaster exposure (68/100)).

The expansion-phase market in 53209 posted values that rose 5.7% over the year, and 28% higher over three years (phase confidence 33/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

Households earn a median $45,288 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Roughly 24.4% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Vacancy runs 12.0%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The ZIP holds roughly 21,963 housing units. Owners hold 42% of homes, renters 58%. On demographic stress specifically, 53209 scores 37/100. Around 48% of renters are cost-burdened. The typical home is worth about $166,700 (3.3× income, relatively affordable). About 25% have a four-year degree. 44,963 residents call 53209 home, typically aged 36.

Taken together, 53209 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Parcel-level detail for 53209 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced.

No ZIP is too small to score: 53209 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 37/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Where the record is thin for 53209, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

Behind 53209's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. Treat 53209 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.