ZIP 31553 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 31553's composite property-distress score is 40/100 - DLRadar classes that as moderate for Brantley County, Georgia. The sharpest non-environmental signals are institutional ownership (92/100), structural risk (54/100), price dislocation (50/100). On the quiet end sit construction/permit lag (39/100) and mortgage stress (36/100). Structurally it carries 54/100, against 11/100 of stress already in motion. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (68/100).

The contraction-phase market in 31553 posted values that fell 4.3% over the year, 8.4% off the recent peak, at 100/100 phase confidence. A cooling market tends to open discount-to-value windows.

The poverty rate is 14.9%. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 27/100. Rent burden reaches 33% of tenant households. The vacancy rate is 12.2% — elevated. Households earn a median $46,205 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The tenure split is 77% owner-occupied to 23% rented. About 15% have a four-year degree. There are about 2,135 housing units across 31553. A median home runs $99,700 here, or 2.0 times local income. About 4,815 people live here, median age 42.

On the whole, 31553 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. 31553 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

Big metro or rural, 31553 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 40/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Brantley County, Georgia and the nation. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 31553 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

The 40/100 figure for 31553 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, 31553 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.