ZIP 36280 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 36280 in Randolph County, Alabama carries a composite property-distress score of 14/100 — a minimal reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. Its standout signals are institutional ownership (64/100), mortgage stress (29/100), structural risk (29/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (29/100) and structural risk (29/100). The latent-versus-live split is 29/100 structural and 9/100 already moving. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (74/100).

The expansion-phase market in 36280 posted values that rose 5.0% over the year, and 65% higher over three years (phase confidence 34/100). Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

The ZIP holds roughly 2,216 housing units. The poverty rate is 15.4%. Households earn a median $76,128 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. The vacancy rate is 23.5% — elevated. The typical home is worth about $201,400 (2.9× income, relatively affordable). About 4,439 people live here, median age 42. Rent burden reaches 54% of tenant households. On demographic stress specifically, 36280 scores 32/100. About 27% have a four-year degree. Owners hold 83% of homes, renters 17%.

On the whole, 36280 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. No parcel file is published for 36280 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

The 36280 read uses the identical scoring model applied coast to coast, which means its 14/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 36280 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Randolph County, Alabama. Where the record is thin for 36280, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

The 14/100 figure for 36280 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. In workflow terms, 36280 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.