ZIP 33868 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 33868 (Polk County, Florida) lands at 38/100 — moderate on DLRadar's public-record scoring. Structural exposure scores 83 and live distress 8 on the 0–100 scale. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (83/100), construction/permit lag (77/100), institutional ownership (69/100). mortgage stress (28/100) stay muted. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (98/100), climate & FEMA risk (96/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (73/100).

The market reads recovery — home values rose 1.9% year on year, 2.2% off the recent peak, and 15% higher over three years, at 27/100 phase confidence. Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

Owners hold 87% of homes, renters 13%. Vacancy runs 18.9%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. A median home runs $247,200 here, or 3.2 times local income. On demographic stress specifically, 33868 scores 30/100. Population is roughly 13,676 with a median age of 41. Around 32% of renters are cost-burdened. There are about 5,098 housing units across 33868. 16.3% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Households earn a median $74,048 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. Around 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Taken together, 33868 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. 33868 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

Big metro or rural, 33868 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 38/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Polk County, Florida and the nation. Sparse data for 33868 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

33868'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. Treat 33868 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.