ZIP 34759 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 34759 (Polk County, Florida) at a moderate 37/100 for overall property distress. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (99/100), climate & FEMA risk (95/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (70/100). Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (81/100), construction/permit lag (71/100), institutional ownership (69/100). mortgage stress (27/100) stay muted. Structural risk reads 81/100 against active distress of 8/100.

Prices here sit in a contraction phase: values fell 0.7% over the trailing year, at 29/100 phase confidence. Falling values surface more motivated sellers and below-market exits.

41,381 residents call 34759 home, typically aged 43. Owners hold 78% of homes, renters 22%. Vacancy runs 14.5%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Educational attainment sits at 27% bachelor's-or-above. Rent burden reaches 59% of tenant households. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 37/100. There are about 18,439 housing units across 34759. 15.6% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Home values center near $300,400, an affordability ratio of 4.3×. Median household income is $62,373, below the U.S. median near $78,000.

Taken together, 34759 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.