ZIP 35178 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Shelby County, Alabama · High Vacancy market
On DLRadar's 0-100 distress scale, ZIP 35178 in Shelby County, Alabama comes in at 29, a low composite-distress reading. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (87/100), FEMA disaster exposure (74/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (68/100). Its standout signals are structural risk (62/100), institutional ownership (55/100), construction/permit lag (29/100). On the quiet end sit construction/permit lag (29/100) and mortgage stress (22/100). The split runs 62/100 structural to 7/100 active on the ground.
The peak-phase market in 35178 posted values that rose 2.7% over the year, and 27% higher over three years, at 22/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
2,867 residents call 35178 home, typically aged 53. The vacancy rate is 23.6% — elevated. Owners hold 83% of homes, renters 17%. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 32/100. The ZIP holds roughly 1,588 housing units. About 16% have a four-year degree. A median home runs $148,700 here, or 3.1 times local income. At $48,382, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The poverty rate is 27.9% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Rent burden reaches 27% of tenant households.
Taken together, 35178 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. There is no property file for 35178 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.
Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 35178's 29/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Shelby County, Alabama or any ZIP coast to coast. 35178 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
Each component behind 35178 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 29/100 roll-up. The point of the 35178 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.
What is driving ZIP 35178’s distress
Unpaid tax, corporate ownership share, insurance cost pressure, NFIP flood risk, construction slowdown, price gaps and auction turnover — plus the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.
Snapshot: 35178 by the numbers
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