ZIP 36042 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Crenshaw County, Alabama's ZIP 36042 registers 25/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (100/100), institutional ownership (56/100), structural risk (55/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (24/100). The latent-versus-live split is 55/100 structural and 7/100 already moving. Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (83/100)).

The peak-phase market in 36042 posted values that rose 4.2% over the year (phase confidence 38/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

A median home runs $111,000 here, or 1.8 times local income. Roughly 19.8% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Households earn a median $63,958 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The tenure split is 93% owner-occupied to 7% rented. Around 100% of renters are cost-burdened. About 12% have a four-year degree. The ZIP holds roughly 814 housing units. On demographic stress specifically, 36042 scores 39/100. The vacancy rate is 37.6% — elevated. Population is roughly 1,346 with a median age of 38.

On the whole, 36042 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.