ZIP 33856 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 33856 (Polk County, Florida) lands at 39/100 — moderate on DLRadar's distress scoring. The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (86/100), institutional ownership (74/100), construction/permit lag (74/100). The latent-versus-live split is 86/100 structural and 0/100 already moving. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (98/100), FEMA disaster exposure (97/100), climate & FEMA risk (96/100).

The recovery-phase market in 33856 posted values that rose 1.9% over the year, 2.2% off the recent peak, at 27/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

Population is roughly 319 with a median age of 71. Median household income is $38,226, below the U.S. median near $78,000. Around 5% of renters are cost-burdened. There are about 509 housing units across 33856. On demographic stress specifically, 33856 scores 56/100. Vacancy runs 56.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The poverty rate is 0.0% — low. Owners hold 3% of homes, renters 97%. About 3% have a four-year degree.

Net-net, 33856 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. No parcel file is published for 33856 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 33856's 39/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Polk County, Florida or any ZIP coast to coast. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 33856, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

Behind 33856's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. The point of the 33856 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.