ZIP 34229 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Sarasota County, Florida's ZIP 34229 registers 39/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Structural exposure scores 86 and live distress 10 on the 0–100 scale. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (99/100), climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (97/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (86/100), institutional ownership (82/100), construction/permit lag (61/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (33/100) register low.

The market reads contraction — home values fell 1.7% year on year, 2.8% off the recent peak, and 78% higher over three years, at 22/100 phase confidence. A cooling market tends to open discount-to-value windows.

About 7,237 people live here, median age 66. Vacancy runs 24.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. A median home runs $692,700 here, or 6.8 times local income. The tenure split is 89% owner-occupied to 11% rented. On demographic stress specifically, 34229 scores 37/100. About 58% have a four-year degree. Roughly 8.4% live below the poverty line. Households earn a median $93,949 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. There are about 4,695 housing units across 34229. Rent burden reaches 51% of tenant households.

Net-net, 34229 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.