ZIP 33868 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 33868 (Polk County, Florida) at a moderate 37/100 for overall property distress. Structural risk reads 82/100 against active distress of 8/100. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (82/100), construction/permit lag (75/100), institutional ownership (70/100). mortgage stress (28/100) stay muted. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (99/100), climate & FEMA risk (96/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (73/100).

Prices here sit in a contraction phase: values fell 0.9% over the trailing year, and 15% higher over three years, at 21/100 phase confidence. Falling values surface more motivated sellers and below-market exits.

Owners hold 87% of homes, renters 13%. Vacancy runs 18.9%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Home values center near $247,200, an affordability ratio of 3.2× — accessible. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 30/100. 13,676 residents call 33868 home, typically aged 41. Rent burden reaches 32% of tenant households. There are about 5,098 housing units across 33868. 16.3% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Median household income is $74,048, near the U.S. median near $78,000. Educational attainment sits at 18% bachelor's-or-above.

Taken together, 33868 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.