ZIP 36748 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 36748 (Marengo County, Alabama) at a low 15/100 for overall property distress. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (83/100). Property-level stress concentrates in institutional ownership (45/100), structural risk (31/100), mortgage stress (20/100). structural risk (31/100) and mortgage stress (20/100) stay muted. Structural exposure scores 31 and live distress 6 on the 0–100 scale.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.2% over the trailing year, at 38/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

61% of housing is owner-occupied. Vacancy runs 26.8%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Rent burden reaches 60% of tenant households. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 38/100. 2,358 residents call 36748 home, typically aged 48. The poverty rate is 24.4% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. The typical home is worth about $93,700 (2.9× income, relatively affordable). There are about 1,388 housing units across 36748. At $31,635, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Around 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Taken together, 36748 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.