ZIP 35172 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 35172 (Blount County, Alabama) at a low 24/100 for overall property distress. Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (83/100), climate & FEMA risk (71/100)). Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (51/100), institutional ownership (48/100), construction/permit lag (38/100). On the quiet end sit construction/permit lag (38/100) and mortgage stress (19/100). Structural risk reads 51/100 against active distress of 6/100.

The peak-phase market in 35172 posted values that rose 2.9% over the year, and 29% higher over three years, at 27/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Population is roughly 2,824 with a median age of 36. A median home runs $126,300 here, or 2.9 times local income. Rent burden reaches 61% of tenant households. The tenure split is 82% owner-occupied to 18% rented. About 5% have a four-year degree. Vacancy runs 13.5%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. There are about 1,241 housing units across 35172. On demographic stress specifically, 35172 scores 36/100. Households earn a median $38,669 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Roughly 22.9% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory.

On the whole, 35172 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.