ZIP 53224 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, ZIP 53224 scores 38 of 100 for composite distress, a moderate level on DLRadar's public-record index. The split runs 86/100 structural to 6/100 active on the ground. 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). Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (95/100), FEMA disaster exposure (71/100).

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.7% over the trailing year, and 29% higher over three years (phase confidence 33/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

The typical home is worth about $211,100 (2.8× income, relatively affordable). Households earn a median $69,727 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. Population is roughly 21,445 with a median age of 29. Around 41% of renters are cost-burdened. The ZIP holds roughly 8,807 housing units. Roughly 24.9% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. The tenure split is 51% owner-occupied to 49% rented. Educational attainment sits at 27% bachelor's-or-above. Vacancy runs 8.5%. On demographic stress specifically, 53224 scores 33/100.

Net-net, 53224 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. There is no property file for 53224 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 53224'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 53224, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

53224's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. The point of the 53224 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.