ZIP 35480 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Tuscaloosa County, Alabama's ZIP 35480 registers 28/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. The split runs 61/100 structural to 7/100 active on the ground. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (78/100), climate & FEMA risk (72/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (61/100), construction/permit lag (55/100), institutional ownership (53/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (22/100).

The contraction-phase market in 35480 posted values that fell 1.6% over the year, 2.8% off the recent peak, and 26% higher over three years, at 63/100 phase confidence. Falling values surface more motivated sellers and below-market exits.

On demographic stress specifically, 35480 scores 29/100. The poverty rate is 21.1% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Around 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. About 1,792 people live here, median age 33. A median home runs $251,500 here, or 3.0 times local income. There are about 635 housing units across 35480. Vacancy runs 12.2%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. 95% of housing is owner-occupied. Households earn a median $87,188 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure.

On the whole, 35480 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. No parcel file is published for 35480 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

The number is not local guesswork: 35480's 28/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Sparse data for 35480 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

Behind 35480'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. In workflow terms, 35480 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.