ZIP 35453 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 35453 in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama carries a composite property-distress score of 32/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (90/100), FEMA disaster exposure (78/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (65/100). The pressure is most legible in structural risk (70/100), institutional ownership (57/100), construction/permit lag (55/100). mortgage stress (23/100) stay muted. Structural risk reads 70/100 against active distress of 7/100.

Prices here sit in a contraction phase: values fell 1.6% over the trailing year, 2.8% off the recent peak, and 16% higher over three years, at 63/100 phase confidence. Softening prices widen the spread between distressed and market value — what acquisition buyers watch for.

The tenure split is 84% owner-occupied to 16% rented. Roughly 13.6% live below the poverty line. About 12,522 people live here, median age 38. There are about 5,620 housing units across 35453. The typical home is worth about $209,900 (2.7× income, relatively affordable). On demographic stress specifically, 35453 scores 28/100. Vacancy runs 13.7%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Median household income is $70,162, near the U.S. median near $78,000. Around 31% of renters are cost-burdened. Educational attainment sits at 16% bachelor's-or-above.

On the whole, 35453 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. No parcel file is published for 35453 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

The 35453 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 32/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 35453 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 35453, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

The 32/100 for 35453 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. For a buyer, 35453 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.