ZIP 33851 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Polk County, Florida's ZIP 33851 registers 37/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Structural exposure scores 82 and live distress 8 on the 0–100 scale. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (99/100), climate & FEMA risk (96/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (73/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (82/100), construction/permit lag (75/100), institutional ownership (70/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (28/100) register low.

The market reads contraction — home values fell 0.9% year on year, at 21/100 phase confidence. A cooling market tends to open discount-to-value windows.

About 1,109 people live here, median age 42. The tenure split is 91% owner-occupied to 9% rented. Roughly 26.8% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. On demographic stress specifically, 33851 scores 25/100. Vacancy runs 14.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. About 13% have a four-year degree. There are about 386 housing units across 33851. Rent burden reaches 0% of tenant households. A median home runs $236,400 here, or 2.3 times local income. Households earn a median $77,557 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure.

Net-net, 33851 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.