ZIP 33873 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Hardee County, Florida · High Poverty market
On DLRadar's 0-100 public-record scale, ZIP 33873 in Hardee County, Florida comes in at 25, a low composite-distress reading. The split runs 52/100 structural to 8/100 active on the ground. Property-level stress concentrates in institutional ownership (66/100), structural risk (52/100), mortgage stress (27/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (27/100). It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (98/100), climate & FEMA risk (69/100).
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 3.8% over the trailing year, and 13% higher over three years, at 23/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
About 14,162 people live here, median age 37. The poverty rate is 27.3% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. The vacancy rate is 11.9% — elevated. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 35/100. 70% of housing is owner-occupied. Median household income is $51,311, below the U.S. median near $78,000. Home values center near $180,100, an affordability ratio of 2.5× — accessible. The ZIP holds roughly 5,400 housing units. Rent burden reaches 57% of tenant households. Educational attainment sits at 14% bachelor's-or-above.
Net-net, 33873 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Inside the full report, DLRadar lists 8 distressed properties for 33873 — owner, address, APN, per-parcel score, bank exposure and exit read.
No ZIP is too small to score: 33873 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 25/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 33873 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.
The 25/100 figure for 33873 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 an operator, 33873 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
Signal-by-signal read on 33873
Tax arrears, institutional buyers, insurance load, flood exposure, stalled construction, dislocated pricing and auction velocity — together with the 8 individual distressed properties are broken out by owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read inside DLRadar.
33873 at a glance
33873 live: composite distress, market phase, housing detail and lender pressure, identical to the per-property report.
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