ZIP 35473 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 35473 (Tuscaloosa County, Alabama) at a moderate 32/100 for overall property distress. On the structural side it scores 70/100, with 7/100 of stress already active. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (70/100), institutional ownership (57/100), construction/permit lag (55/100). mortgage stress (23/100) stay muted. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (90/100), FEMA disaster exposure (78/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (65/100).

The market reads contraction — home values fell 1.6% year on year, 2.8% off the recent peak, and 19% higher over three years, at 63/100 phase confidence. A cooling market tends to open discount-to-value windows.

The typical home is worth about $272,800 (3.7× income, relatively affordable). The vacancy rate is 4.6%. Population is roughly 19,094 with a median age of 37. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 31/100. 59% of housing is owner-occupied. Households earn a median $67,224 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Rent burden reaches 38% of tenant households. Educational attainment sits at 37% bachelor's-or-above. The ZIP holds roughly 8,314 housing units. Roughly 16.4% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory.

Taken together, 35473 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

Big metro or rural, 35473 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 32/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama and the nation. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 35473 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

Behind 35473's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. Treat 35473 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.