ZIP 36526 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

On DLRadar's 0-100 public-record scale, ZIP 36526 in Baldwin County, Alabama comes in at 35, a moderate composite-distress reading. The latent-versus-live split is 77/100 structural and 8/100 already moving. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (97/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (92/100), FEMA disaster exposure (78/100)). The pressure is most legible in structural risk (77/100), institutional ownership (63/100), construction/permit lag (56/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (28/100).

The market reads expansion — home values rose 6.3% year on year, and 22% higher over three years (phase confidence 36/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

Population is roughly 34,552 with a median age of 39. The vacancy rate is 8.3%. There are about 15,035 housing units across 36526. Rent burden reaches 25% of tenant households. 75% of housing is owner-occupied. The poverty rate is 6.1% — low. A median home runs $322,100 here, or 3.4 times local income. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 25/100. Households earn a median $90,733 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. About 43% have a four-year degree.

On balance 36526 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

Big metro or rural, 36526 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 35/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Baldwin County, Alabama and the nation. 36526 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

The 35/100 figure for 36526 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. Treat 36526 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.