ZIP 36608 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 36608 (Mobile County, Alabama) at a moderate 38/100 for overall property distress. 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 latent-versus-live split is 83/100 structural and 7/100 already moving. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (83/100), FEMA disaster exposure (83/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 3.0% year on year, and 17% higher over three years (phase confidence 32/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 32/100. 15.9% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Owners hold 55% of homes, renters 45%. Educational attainment sits at 42% bachelor's-or-above. Around 43% of renters are cost-burdened. The ZIP holds roughly 17,701 housing units. Median household income is $64,372, below the U.S. median near $78,000. About 37,599 people live here, median age 34. Home values center near $262,200, an affordability ratio of 3.6× — accessible. The vacancy rate is 11.2% — elevated.

Net-net, 36608 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.