ZIP 36509 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 36509 (Mobile County, Alabama) at a moderate 38/100 for overall property distress. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (83/100), FEMA disaster exposure (83/100). The latent-versus-live split is 83/100 structural and 7/100 already moving. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (83/100), structural risk (83/100), institutional ownership (63/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (25/100) register low.

The market reads peak — home values rose 3.0% year on year (phase confidence 32/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Median household income is $34,963, below the U.S. median near $78,000. The ZIP holds roughly 535 housing units. 27.1% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Around 54% of renters are cost-burdened. Educational attainment sits at 10% bachelor's-or-above. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 36/100. Home values center near $86,500, an affordability ratio of 2.4× — accessible. About 1,462 people live here, median age 47. The vacancy rate is 19.6% — elevated. Owners hold 65% of homes, renters 35%.

Net-net, 36509 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.