ZIP 35453 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Tuscaloosa County, Alabama's ZIP 35453 registers 33/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (90/100), FEMA disaster exposure (83/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (62/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (72/100), construction/permit lag (64/100), institutional ownership (59/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (23/100) register low. Structural exposure scores 72 and live distress 7 on the 0–100 scale.

The market reads peak — home values rose 3.4% year on year, and 16% higher over three years, at 43/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Owners hold 84% of homes, renters 16%. 13.6% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. About 12,522 people live here, median age 38. There are about 5,620 housing units across 35453. Home values center near $209,900, an affordability ratio of 2.7× — accessible. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 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. Rent burden reaches 31% of tenant households. Educational attainment sits at 16% bachelor's-or-above.

Net-net, 35453 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.