ZIP 34788 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 34788 in Lake County, Florida carries a composite property-distress score of 37/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (97/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (92/100), climate & FEMA risk (91/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (81/100), institutional ownership (73/100), construction/permit lag (62/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (27/100) register low. Structurally it carries 81/100, against 8/100 of stress already in motion.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values held roughly flat over the trailing year, and 14% higher over three years, at 14/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Population is roughly 21,867 with a median age of 56. The typical home is worth about $169,800 (2.9× income, relatively affordable). Owners hold 82% of homes, renters 18%. Around 42% of renters are cost-burdened. Vacancy runs 17.0%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The poverty rate is 11.3%. There are about 11,190 housing units across 34788. On demographic stress specifically, 34788 scores 29/100. At $57,477, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Around 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Taken together, 34788 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. 34788 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 34788's 37/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Lake County, Florida or any ZIP coast to coast. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 34788 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

The 37/100 for 34788 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. In workflow terms, 34788 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.