ZIP 35406 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 35406 (Tuscaloosa County, Alabama) at a moderate 33/100 for overall property distress. Structural exposure scores 72 and live distress 7 on the 0–100 scale. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (72/100), construction/permit lag (64/100), institutional ownership (59/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (23/100). Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (90/100), FEMA disaster exposure (83/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (62/100)).

The peak-phase market in 35406 posted values that rose 3.4% over the year, and 14% higher over three years, at 43/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Population is roughly 18,533 with a median age of 42. On demographic stress specifically, 35406 scores 25/100. A median home runs $481,600 here, or 3.9 times local income. Rent burden reaches 31% of tenant households. There are about 8,537 housing units across 35406. About 68% have a four-year degree. Vacancy runs 9.0%. Households earn a median $118,736 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. The tenure split is 75% owner-occupied to 25% rented. Roughly 5.3% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas.

On balance 35406 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.