ZIP 53215 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Milwaukee County, Wisconsin · High Poverty market
DLRadar grades ZIP 53215 (Milwaukee County, Wisconsin) at a moderate 38/100 for overall property distress. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (95/100), FEMA disaster exposure (71/100). Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (95/100), structural risk (86/100), institutional ownership (59/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (20/100). Structural risk reads 86/100 against active distress of 6/100.
The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.7% year on year, and 23% higher over three years (phase confidence 33/100). Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.
Owners hold 47% of homes, renters 53%. A median home runs $156,800 here, or 3.0 times local income. The poverty rate is 23.1% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Around 11% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Vacancy runs 8.7%. The ZIP holds roughly 21,274 housing units. About 58,375 people live here, median age 31. Median household income is $49,207, below the U.S. median near $78,000. On demographic stress specifically, 53215 scores 36/100. Around 40% of renters are cost-burdened.
On the whole, 53215 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 53215's 38/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin or any ZIP coast to coast. Where the public record is thin for 53215, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.
The 38/100 figure for 53215 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. For a buyer, 53215 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.
Signal-by-signal read on 53215
Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
53215 at a glance
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 53215, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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The complete 53215 distress and acquisition report
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