ZIP 34498 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 34498 (Levy County, Florida) at a low 28/100 for overall property distress. Structural risk reads 60/100 against active distress of 8/100. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (81/100). Property-level stress concentrates in institutional ownership (71/100), structural risk (60/100), mortgage stress (28/100). mortgage stress (28/100) and construction/permit lag (26/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values held roughly flat over the trailing year, 1.0% off the recent peak, and 36% higher over three years, at 32/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Home values center near $335,100, an affordability ratio of 5.4×. Median household income is $56,875, below the U.S. median near $78,000. 666 residents call 34498 home, typically aged 60. Educational attainment sits at 31% bachelor's-or-above. Owners hold 81% of homes, renters 19%. There are about 551 housing units across 34498. Vacancy runs 45.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. 25.0% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Rent burden reaches 59% of tenant households. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 44/100.

Taken together, 34498 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.