ZIP 54982 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Waushara County, Wisconsin · High Vacancy market
ZIP code 54982 in Waushara County, Wisconsin carries a composite property-distress score of 15/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. Leading the profile are construction/permit lag (66/100), structural risk (33/100), mortgage stress (8/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (8/100) and institutional ownership (5/100) register low. The split runs 33/100 structural to 2/100 active on the ground.
The market reads peak — home values rose 4.6% year on year, and 36% higher over three years, at 40/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
The vacancy rate is 29.9% — elevated. Owners hold 80% of homes, renters 20%. 6,881 residents call 54982 home, typically aged 52. Median household income is $63,814, below the U.S. median near $78,000. There are about 4,418 housing units across 54982. 14.1% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Home values center near $203,100, an affordability ratio of 2.9× — accessible. On demographic stress specifically, 54982 scores 30/100. Educational attainment sits at 22% bachelor's-or-above. Around 38% of renters are cost-burdened.
Net-net, 54982 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. While 54982 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.
No ZIP is too small to score: 54982 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 15/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 54982, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.
54982's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. The point of the 54982 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.
Signal-by-signal read on 54982
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.
54982 at a glance
The live 54982 panel — distress score, market phase, housing and bank pressure — as attached to every individual property.
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The full 54982 file lists each distressed parcel with owner, address, APN, per-property score, bank exposure and exit-velocity read, and carries it straight through to owner and lender records. Refreshed continuously.
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