ZIP 33960 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 33960 in Highlands County, Florida carries a composite property-distress score of 29/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. Its heaviest discrete signals: construction/permit lag (68/100), structural risk (63/100), institutional ownership (57/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (24/100). The latent-versus-live split is 63/100 structural and 7/100 already moving. Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (97/100), climate & FEMA risk (73/100)).

Prices here sit in a neutral phase: values rose 4.0% over the trailing year, 1.0% off the recent peak (phase confidence 50/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

Roughly 22.0% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 57/100. About 618 people live here, median age 55. Around 70% of renters are cost-burdened. Educational attainment sits at 13% bachelor's-or-above. The typical home is worth about $221,000. The ZIP holds roughly 426 housing units. The vacancy rate is 20.6% — elevated. 85% of housing is owner-occupied.

Net-net, 33960 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. 33960 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

The number is not local guesswork: 33960's 29/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Where the record is thin for 33960, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

The 29/100 figure for 33960 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. Treat 33960 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.