ZIP 36862 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Chambers County, Alabama · High Vacancy market
ZIP code 36862 in Chambers County, Alabama carries a composite property-distress score of 16/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (74/100). Structural risk reads 33/100 against active distress of 6/100. What sets it apart are the readings on institutional ownership (40/100), structural risk (33/100), mortgage stress (19/100). mortgage stress (19/100) and construction/permit lag (18/100) stay muted.
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 3.2% over the trailing year, and 21% higher over three years, at 22/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 34/100. Educational attainment sits at 15% bachelor's-or-above. About 6,052 people live here, median age 52. Home values center near $134,700, an affordability ratio of 3.5× — accessible. Median household income is $39,510, below the U.S. median near $78,000. Owners hold 72% of homes, renters 28%. 14.7% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Vacancy runs 21.5%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Around 41% of renters are cost-burdened. The ZIP holds roughly 3,240 housing units.
On the whole, 36862 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. There is no property file for 36862 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.
No ZIP is too small to score: 36862 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 16/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. 36862 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
The 16/100 for 36862 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. For an operator, 36862 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
Signal-by-signal read on 36862
Unpaid tax, corporate ownership share, insurance cost pressure, NFIP flood risk, construction slowdown, price gaps and auction turnover — plus the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.
ZIP 36862 Stress Report snapshot
The live 36862 panel — distress score, market phase, housing and bank pressure — as attached to every individual property.
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