ZIP 31606 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Lowndes County, Georgia's ZIP 31606 registers 32/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (97/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (91/100), climate & FEMA risk (68/100). What sets it apart are the readings on institutional ownership (72/100), structural risk (71/100), construction/permit lag (53/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (27/100) register low. Latent structural risk is 71/100 while live distress already moving reads 8/100.

The expansion-phase market in 31606 posted values that rose 8.0% over the year, and 10% higher over three years, at 64/100 phase confidence. Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

The vacancy rate is 13.2% — elevated. Rent burden reaches 41% of tenant households. 3,391 residents call 31606 home, typically aged 40. There are about 1,591 housing units across 31606. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 35/100. Households earn a median $43,411 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. A median home runs $206,400 here, or 4.3 times local income. Educational attainment sits at 19% bachelor's-or-above. 81% of housing is owner-occupied. The poverty rate is 20.0% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate.

Net-net, 31606 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. While 31606 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

Big metro or rural, 31606 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 32/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Lowndes County, Georgia and the nation. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 31606 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

31606'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 31606 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.