ZIP 34996 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Martin County, Florida · High Vacancy market
In Martin County, Florida, ZIP 34996 scores 33 of 100 for composite distress, a moderate level on DLRadar's distress index. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (72/100), institutional ownership (68/100), construction/permit lag (38/100). construction/permit lag (38/100) and mortgage stress (27/100) stay muted. The split runs 72/100 structural to 8/100 active on the ground. Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (95/100), climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (77/100)).
Prices here sit in a contraction phase: values fell 0.7% over the trailing year, and 16% higher over three years, at 24/100 phase confidence. Falling values surface more motivated sellers and below-market exits.
Owners hold 85% of homes, renters 15%. Vacancy runs 34.1%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. 7.7% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Around 56% of renters are cost-burdened. The ZIP holds roughly 8,766 housing units. Educational attainment sits at 46% bachelor's-or-above. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 35/100. Home values center near $456,800, an affordability ratio of 4.9×. At $82,898, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. 10,875 residents call 34996 home, typically aged 65.
Net-net, 34996 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
No ZIP is too small to score: 34996 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 33/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 34996 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.
Each component behind 34996 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 33/100 roll-up. In workflow terms, 34996 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.
What is driving ZIP 34996’s distress
Delinquent tax, institutional holdings, insurance strain, flood/NFIP exposure, build-out lag, price dislocation and auction pace — along with the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
ZIP 34996 Stress Report snapshot
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