ZIP 35550 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 35550 (Walker County, Alabama) at a moderate 31/100 for overall property distress. Structural risk reads 66/100 against active distress of 6/100. Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (83/100), climate & FEMA risk (80/100)). Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (66/100), institutional ownership (45/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (19/100).

The peak-phase market in 35550 posted values that rose 2.9% over the year, at 27/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Vacancy runs 19.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. A median home runs $91,900 here, or 2.0 times local income. Households earn a median $42,975 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. There are about 2,413 housing units across 35550. The tenure split is 74% owner-occupied to 26% rented. Roughly 24.6% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Population is roughly 5,053 with a median age of 45. About 8% have a four-year degree. On demographic stress specifically, 35550 scores 28/100. Rent burden reaches 19% of tenant households.

On the whole, 35550 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.