ZIP 33597 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 33597 in Sumter County, Florida carries a composite property-distress score of 34/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. The pressure is most legible in structural risk (75/100), institutional ownership (71/100), construction/permit lag (50/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (28/100). Structurally it carries 75/100, against 8/100 of stress already in motion. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (99/100), climate & FEMA risk (88/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (76/100).

Prices here sit in a recovery phase: values rose 1.2% over the trailing year, 1.3% off the recent peak, and 15% higher over three years (phase confidence 16/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

The vacancy rate is 15.0% — elevated. 21.1% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The tenure split is 87% owner-occupied to 13% rented. Educational attainment sits at 13% bachelor's-or-above. There are about 4,546 housing units across 33597. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 32/100. Median household income is $61,563, below the U.S. median near $78,000. 9,424 residents call 33597 home, typically aged 43. Around 34% of renters are cost-burdened. A median home runs $245,000 here, or 3.5 times local income.

Taken together, 33597 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. DLRadar currently tracks 3 individual distressed properties in 33597, each with owner, address, APN, a per-property distress score, bank-exposure read and exit-velocity estimate.

Big metro or rural, 33597 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 34/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Sumter County, Florida and the nation. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 33597 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

33597'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 33597 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.