ZIP 54970 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 54970 in Waushara County, Wisconsin carries a composite property-distress score of 15/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Latent structural risk is 35/100 while live distress already moving reads 2/100. The pressure is most legible in construction/permit lag (67/100), structural risk (35/100), mortgage stress (8/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (8/100) and institutional ownership (6/100).

The peak-phase market in 54970 posted values that rose 4.6% over the year, and 16% higher over three years, at 40/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

At $64,653, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. There are about 1,854 housing units across 54970. Around 36% of renters are cost-burdened. Educational attainment sits at 8% bachelor's-or-above. On demographic stress specifically, 54970 scores 27/100. 83% of housing is owner-occupied. Vacancy runs 21.5%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. 3,916 residents call 54970 home, typically aged 48. Roughly 8.4% live below the poverty line. A median home runs $160,100 here, or 2.3 times local income.

On the whole, 54970 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

Big metro or rural, 54970 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 15/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Waushara County, Wisconsin and the nation. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 54970 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

The 15/100 figure for 54970 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. Treat 54970 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.