ZIP 54542 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Forest County, Wisconsin · High Vacancy market
Scored on a fixed 0-100 scale, 54542 (Forest County, Wisconsin) returns a low composite of 15/100. Its heaviest discrete signals: construction/permit lag (71/100), structural risk (33/100), mortgage stress (12/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (12/100) and institutional ownership (4/100) register low. Structural risk reads 33/100 against active distress of 4/100.
The market reads peak — home values rose 4.9% year on year, at 37/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
Owners hold 90% of homes, renters 10%. Vacancy runs 78.9%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. About 615 people live here, median age 53. Households earn a median $45,625 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. A median home runs $122,000 here, or 3.5 times local income. The poverty rate is 10.2%. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 30/100. Rent burden reaches 0% of tenant households. There are about 1,140 housing units across 54542. Educational attainment sits at 16% bachelor's-or-above.
On the whole, 54542 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. While 54542 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.
Big metro or rural, 54542 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 15/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Forest County, Wisconsin and the nation. 54542 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
The 15/100 figure for 54542 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. In workflow terms, 54542 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.
What is driving ZIP 54542’s distress
Unpaid tax, corporate ownership share, insurance cost pressure, NFIP flood risk, construction slowdown, price gaps and auction turnover — plus the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.
ZIP 54542 Stress Report snapshot
The live 54542 panel — distress score, market phase, housing and bank pressure — as attached to every individual property.
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