ZIP 34238 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Sarasota County, Florida's ZIP 34238 registers 39/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. 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. Structural risk reads 86/100 against active distress of 10/100.

The market reads contraction — home values fell 1.7% year on year, 2.8% off the recent peak, and 50% higher over three years, at 22/100 phase confidence. A cooling market tends to open discount-to-value windows.

The tenure split is 76% owner-occupied to 24% rented. Households earn a median $94,583 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. A median home runs $574,600 here, or 5.6 times local income. Roughly 5.9% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. Vacancy runs 18.9%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Rent burden reaches 43% of tenant households. There are about 14,705 housing units across 34238. About 55% have a four-year degree. About 22,808 people live here, median age 64. On demographic stress specifically, 34238 scores 33/100.

Net-net, 34238 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Inside the full report, DLRadar lists 2 distressed properties for 34238 — owner, address, APN, per-parcel score, bank exposure and exit read.