ZIP 35989 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Dekalb County, Alabama · High Vacancy market
DLRadar grades ZIP 35989 (Dekalb County, Alabama) at a low 27/100 for overall property distress. The split runs 58/100 structural to 6/100 active on the ground. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (74/100), structural risk (58/100), institutional ownership (43/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (19/100) register low. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (78/100), climate & FEMA risk (77/100).
The peak-phase market in 35989 posted values that rose 3.2% over the year, and 60% higher over three years, at 22/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
3,793 residents call 35989 home, typically aged 36. The vacancy rate is 14.8% — elevated. 20.8% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The tenure split is 80% owner-occupied to 20% rented. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 30/100. Educational attainment sits at 12% bachelor's-or-above. A median home runs $94,100 here, or 2.0 times local income. The ZIP holds roughly 1,581 housing units. At $43,750, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Rent burden reaches 43% of tenant households.
Net-net, 35989 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. While 35989 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.
No ZIP is too small to score: 35989 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 27/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 35989 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.
The 27/100 figure for 35989 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. For a buyer, 35989 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.
ZIP 35989 distress signals, scored
Unpaid tax, corporate ownership share, insurance cost pressure, NFIP flood risk, construction slowdown, price gaps and auction turnover — plus the 0 individual distressed properties come with owner, address, APN, an individual score and an exit read in the complete report.
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