ZIP 30038 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Dekalb County, Georgia · High Vacancy market
Scored on a fixed 0-100 scale, 30038 (Dekalb County, Georgia) returns a moderate composite of 32/100. Structural exposure scores 71 and live distress 7 on the 0–100 scale. Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (71/100), institutional ownership (67/100), construction/permit lag (27/100). construction/permit lag (27/100) and mortgage stress (23/100) stay muted. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (94/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (91/100), FEMA disaster exposure (88/100).
The peak-phase market in 30038 posted values that rose 1.2% over the year, and 8% higher over three years, at 18/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
Vacancy runs 13.9%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. There are about 17,114 housing units across 30038. The poverty rate is 10.8%. The tenure split is 62% owner-occupied to 38% rented. Around 50% of renters are cost-burdened. Around 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Population is roughly 42,744 with a median age of 38. On demographic stress specifically, 30038 scores 33/100. The typical home is worth about $247,000 (3.3× income, relatively affordable). At $70,860, median income runs near typical U.S. levels.
Net-net, 30038 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Parcel-level detail for 30038 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced.
No ZIP is too small to score: 30038 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 32/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Sparse data for 30038 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.
Each component behind 30038 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 32/100 roll-up. In workflow terms, 30038 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.
ZIP 30038 distress signals, scored
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties are listed in full, with owner, address, APN, per-parcel score and exit-velocity read.
Snapshot: 30038 by the numbers
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 30038, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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Unlock parcel-level detail for ZIP 30038
The full 30038 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.
Each signal above is traceable to an open dataset · methodology