ZIP 31778 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

ZIP code 31778 in Brooks County, Georgia carries a composite property-distress score of 26/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Structural risk reads 56/100 against active distress of 7/100. What sets it apart are the readings on institutional ownership (63/100), structural risk (56/100), construction/permit lag (51/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (25/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (97/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 4.6% year on year, and 21% higher over three years, at 38/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

A median home runs $109,900 here, or 1.4 times local income. There are about 1,093 housing units across 31778. About 2,632 people live here, median age 47. Rent burden reaches 37% of tenant households. Vacancy runs 12.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. About 18% have a four-year degree. The tenure split is 84% owner-occupied to 16% rented. Roughly 12.1% live below the poverty line. Households earn a median $71,216 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. On demographic stress specifically, 31778 scores 24/100.

Net-net, 31778 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.