ZIP 53226 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 53226's composite property-distress score is 37/100 - DLRadar classes that as moderate for Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Latent structural risk is 83/100 while live distress already moving reads 6/100. The pressure is most legible in construction/permit lag (85/100), structural risk (83/100), institutional ownership (57/100). mortgage stress (20/100) stay muted. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (95/100), FEMA disaster exposure (68/100).

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.7% over the trailing year, and 22% higher over three years (phase confidence 33/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

About 18,893 people live here, median age 39. The vacancy rate is 4.7%. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 27/100. About 60% have a four-year degree. 57% of housing is owner-occupied. Rent burden reaches 39% of tenant households. The ZIP holds roughly 9,061 housing units. Median household income is $86,361, near the U.S. median near $78,000. The typical home is worth about $335,600 (3.5× income, relatively affordable). Roughly 7.5% live below the poverty line.

Net-net, 53226 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. No parcel file is published for 53226 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

The number is not local guesswork: 53226's 37/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 53226 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

Behind 53226'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. For a buyer, 53226 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.