ZIP 33857 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

ZIP code 33857 in Highlands County, Florida carries a composite property-distress score of 32/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (99/100), climate & FEMA risk (86/100). What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (72/100), structural risk (68/100), institutional ownership (58/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (24/100) register low. Structural risk reads 68/100 against active distress of 7/100.

The market reads peak — home values rose 1.3% year on year, at 27/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Households earn a median $47,083 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. On demographic stress specifically, 33857 scores 32/100. Vacancy runs 55.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. About 18% have a four-year degree. Roughly 20.6% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. There are about 1,053 housing units across 33857. About 935 people live here, median age 65. The tenure split is 93% owner-occupied to 7% rented. A median home runs $191,700 here, or 2.8 times local income.

Net-net, 33857 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.