ZIP 36738 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 36738's composite property-distress score is 14/100 - DLRadar classes that as minimal for Marengo County, Alabama. The sharpest non-environmental signals are institutional ownership (43/100), structural risk (29/100). On the quiet end sit structural risk (29/100). On the structural side it scores 29/100, with 0/100 of stress already active. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (78/100).

The peak-phase market in 36738 posted values that rose 3.2% over the year (phase confidence 24/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 37/100. Roughly 25.2% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. The vacancy rate is 23.5% — elevated. There are about 340 housing units across 36738. Rent burden reaches 62% of tenant households. Households earn a median $33,700 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Population is roughly 933 with a median age of 50. Owners hold 66% of homes, renters 34%. Around 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

On the whole, 36738 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Parcel-level detail for 36738 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.

Big metro or rural, 36738 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 14/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Marengo County, Alabama and the nation. Sparse data for 36738 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

The 14/100 figure for 36738 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. Practically, 36738 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.