ZIP 36049 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Crenshaw County, Alabama, ZIP 36049 scores 15 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (78/100). Its standout signals are institutional ownership (64/100), structural risk (29/100), mortgage stress (27/100). On the quiet end sit structural risk (29/100) and mortgage stress (27/100). Structurally it carries 29/100, against 8/100 of stress already in motion.

The market reads neutral — home values rose 5.0% year on year, and 7% higher over three years, at 33/100 phase confidence. Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

Population is roughly 5,314 with a median age of 44. Median household income is $53,073, below the U.S. median near $78,000. There are about 2,559 housing units across 36049. Rent burden reaches 20% of tenant households. The typical home is worth about $140,900 (2.3× income, relatively affordable). On demographic stress specifically, 36049 scores 27/100. The tenure split is 69% owner-occupied to 31% rented. The poverty rate is 13.1%. The vacancy rate is 20.6% — elevated. Educational attainment sits at 18% bachelor's-or-above.

Taken together, 36049 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. While 36049 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

Whether 36049 runs hot or quiet, its 15/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 36049 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Crenshaw County, Alabama or nationwide. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 36049 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

Behind 36049'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. For a buyer, 36049 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.