ZIP 35988 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 35988's composite property-distress score is 26/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Dekalb County, Alabama. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (77/100), FEMA disaster exposure (74/100). Latent structural risk is 56/100 while live distress already moving reads 6/100. The sharpest non-environmental signals are construction/permit lag (71/100), structural risk (56/100), institutional ownership (40/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (19/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 3.2% year on year, at 22/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Households earn a median $53,036 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. A median home runs $158,500 here, or 2.4 times local income. Vacancy runs 12.8%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 24/100. The ZIP holds roughly 874 housing units. About 23% have a four-year degree. Rent burden reaches 12% of tenant households. 67% of housing is owner-occupied. Roughly 8.9% live below the poverty line. About 2,376 people live here, median age 35.

Net-net, 35988 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Parcel-level detail for 35988 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced.

Big metro or rural, 35988 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 26/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Dekalb County, Alabama and the nation. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 35988 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

Behind 35988'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, 35988 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.