ZIP 36540 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 36540 (Clarke County, Alabama) at a low 17/100 for overall property distress. Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (83/100)). Property-level stress concentrates in institutional ownership (46/100), structural risk (34/100), construction/permit lag (7/100). On the quiet end sit structural risk (34/100) and construction/permit lag (7/100). Structural risk reads 34/100 against active distress of 0/100.

The peak-phase market in 36540 posted values that rose 4.2% over the year, at 38/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Households earn a median $33,500 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The tenure split is 85% owner-occupied to 15% rented. Roughly 30.3% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Rent burden reaches 100% of tenant households. About 5% have a four-year degree. There are about 474 housing units across 36540. Vacancy runs 20.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Population is roughly 854 with a median age of 37. On demographic stress specifically, 36540 scores 50/100.

On the whole, 36540 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.