ZIP 35553 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 35553 (Winston County, Alabama) lands at 16/100 — low on DLRadar's public-record scoring. The pressure is most legible in institutional ownership (43/100), structural risk (32/100), mortgage stress (21/100). By contrast, structural risk (32/100) and mortgage stress (21/100) register low. On the structural side it scores 32/100, with 6/100 of stress already active. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (78/100).

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.0% over the trailing year, and 50% higher over three years (phase confidence 34/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

Rent burden reaches 28% of tenant households. About 5,073 people live here, median age 42. Roughly 17.7% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. A median home runs $108,700 here, or 1.9 times local income. Households earn a median $51,500 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 27/100. About 14% have a four-year degree. Vacancy runs 23.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. There are about 2,253 housing units across 35553. The tenure split is 80% owner-occupied to 20% rented.

Net-net, 35553 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. While 35553 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

Whether 35553 runs hot or quiet, its 16/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 35553 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Winston County, Alabama or nationwide. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 35553, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

35553's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. Practically, 35553 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.