ZIP 54442 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 54442 (Lincoln County, Wisconsin) lands at 17/100 — low on DLRadar's public-record scoring. Structural risk reads 37/100 against active distress of 2/100. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (79/100), structural risk (37/100), mortgage stress (5/100). mortgage stress (5/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) stay muted.

The peak-phase market in 54442 posted values that rose 4.6% over the year, and 21% higher over three years (phase confidence 40/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Median household income is $65,000, below the U.S. median near $78,000. Vacancy runs 22.8%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Owners hold 87% of homes, renters 13%. There are about 790 housing units across 54442. The poverty rate is 4.6% — low. Around 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. A median home runs $229,800 here, or 3.4 times local income. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 34/100. Rent burden reaches 71% of tenant households. 1,530 residents call 54442 home, typically aged 52.

Net-net, 54442 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. 54442 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

Big metro or rural, 54442 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 17/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Lincoln County, Wisconsin and the nation. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 54442 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

The 17/100 figure for 54442 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, 54442 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.