ZIP 33857 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Highlands County, Florida's ZIP 33857 registers 32/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (98/100), climate & FEMA risk (86/100). Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (76/100), structural risk (69/100), institutional ownership (58/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (24/100) register low. Structurally it carries 69/100, against 7/100 of stress already in motion.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.3% year on year, 1.3% off the recent peak, at 69/100 phase confidence. Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

At $47,083, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 32/100. Vacancy runs 55.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. About 18% have a four-year degree. 20.6% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. There are about 1,053 housing units across 33857. About 935 people live here, median age 65. Owners hold 93% of homes, renters 7%. Home values center near $191,700, an affordability ratio of 2.8× — accessible.

Net-net, 33857 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Parcel-level detail for 33857 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.

Whether 33857 runs hot or quiet, its 32/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 33857 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Highlands County, Florida or nationwide. Where the public record is thin for 33857, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

The 32/100 figure for 33857 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. For a buyer, 33857 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.