ZIP 36301 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 36301 (Houston County, Alabama) lands at 28/100 — low on DLRadar's distress scoring. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (85/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (80/100), FEMA disaster exposure (74/100). The split runs 61/100 structural to 7/100 active on the ground. Leading the profile are structural risk (61/100), institutional ownership (57/100), mortgage stress (25/100). mortgage stress (25/100) and construction/permit lag (20/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a contraction phase: values fell 1.2% over the trailing year, 2.0% off the recent peak, and 17% higher over three years (phase confidence 61/100). Falling values surface more motivated sellers and below-market exits.

At $49,124, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. About 18% have a four-year degree. Roughly 21.8% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Rent burden reaches 37% of tenant households. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 34/100. 58% of housing is owner-occupied. Population is roughly 38,627 with a median age of 39. The vacancy rate is 12.9% — elevated. Home values center near $164,100, an affordability ratio of 3.2× — accessible. There are about 18,009 housing units across 36301.

On the whole, 36301 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. No parcel file is published for 36301 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

Big metro or rural, 36301 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 28/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Houston County, Alabama and the nation. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 36301 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

36301's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. Treat 36301 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.