ZIP 33897 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Polk County, Florida's ZIP 33897 registers 37/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Structural risk reads 82/100 against active distress of 8/100. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (82/100), construction/permit lag (75/100), institutional ownership (70/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (28/100). Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (99/100), climate & FEMA risk (96/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (73/100)).

The contraction-phase market in 33897 posted values that fell 0.9% over the year, at 21/100 phase confidence. Softening prices widen the spread between distressed and market value — what acquisition buyers watch for.

70% of housing is owner-occupied. The typical home is worth about $307,100 (3.8× income, relatively affordable). At $73,457, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. Rent burden reaches 52% of tenant households. Vacancy runs 22.8%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 35/100. There are about 13,807 housing units across 33897. Around 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Population is roughly 29,206 with a median age of 39. The poverty rate is 12.1%.

On the whole, 33897 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.