ZIP 35172 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

On DLRadar's 0-100 public-record scale, ZIP 35172 in Blount County, Alabama comes in at 24, a low composite-distress reading. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (78/100), climate & FEMA risk (71/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (64/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in institutional ownership (57/100), structural risk (52/100), mortgage stress (19/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (19/100) and construction/permit lag (6/100). The split runs 52/100 structural to 6/100 active on the ground.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.7% over the trailing year, and 29% higher over three years (phase confidence 22/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

2,824 residents call 35172 home, typically aged 36. The typical home is worth about $126,300 (2.9× income, relatively affordable). Rent burden reaches 61% of tenant households. Owners hold 82% of homes, renters 18%. Educational attainment sits at 5% bachelor's-or-above. Vacancy runs 13.5%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. There are about 1,241 housing units across 35172. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 36/100. At $38,669, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The poverty rate is 22.9% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate.

On the whole, 35172 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. While 35172 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

Big metro or rural, 35172 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 24/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Blount County, Alabama and the nation. Sparse data for 35172 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

35172'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. In workflow terms, 35172 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.