ZIP 53218 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Milwaukee County, Wisconsin · High Poverty market
ZIP code 53218 in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin carries a composite property-distress score of 38/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (95/100), FEMA disaster exposure (71/100). Latent structural risk is 86/100 while live distress already moving reads 6/100. Leading the profile are construction/permit lag (95/100), structural risk (86/100), institutional ownership (59/100). mortgage stress (20/100) stay muted.
Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.7% over the trailing year, and 31% higher over three years (phase confidence 33/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.
Median household income is $42,207, below the U.S. median near $78,000. Around 52% of renters are cost-burdened. The vacancy rate is 8.3%. Around 10% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The poverty rate is 28.2% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. On demographic stress specifically, 53218 scores 39/100. A median home runs $133,400 here, or 2.9 times local income. 40,581 residents call 53218 home, typically aged 30. There are about 16,413 housing units across 53218. Owners hold 42% of homes, renters 58%.
On the whole, 53218 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. There is no property file for 53218 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.
Whether 53218 runs hot or quiet, its 38/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 53218 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin or nationwide. Sparse data for 53218 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.
Each component behind 53218 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 38/100 roll-up. For a buyer, 53218 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.
ZIP 53218 distress signals, scored
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