ZIP 34982 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In St Lucie County, Florida, ZIP 34982 scores 38 of 100 for composite distress, a moderate level on DLRadar's distress index. Latent structural risk is 84/100 while live distress already moving reads 8/100. The pressure is most legible in structural risk (84/100), construction/permit lag (77/100), institutional ownership (69/100). mortgage stress (26/100) stay muted. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (96/100), FEMA disaster exposure (95/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (83/100).

The market reads contraction — home values fell 0.7% year on year, and 15% higher over three years (phase confidence 24/100). Falling values surface more motivated sellers and below-market exits.

Home values center near $262,000, an affordability ratio of 4.2×. Households earn a median $54,025 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Owners hold 74% of homes, renters 26%. There are about 13,097 housing units across 34982. The vacancy rate is 11.2%. About 15% have a four-year degree. 27,447 residents call 34982 home, typically aged 43. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 38/100. Rent burden reaches 62% of tenant households. The poverty rate is 14.0%.

Taken together, 34982 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Parcel-level detail for 34982 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced.

No ZIP is too small to score: 34982 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 38/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 34982 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

34982's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For an operator, 34982 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.