ZIP 36879 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 36879 (Chambers County, Alabama) at a low 27/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (64/100), structural risk (59/100), institutional ownership (53/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (21/100). The latent-versus-live split is 59/100 structural and 6/100 already moving. Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (83/100), climate & FEMA risk (61/100)).

The peak-phase market in 36879 posted values that rose 3.6% over the year, and 32% higher over three years (phase confidence 36/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

The vacancy rate is 4.0%. Roughly 0.7% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. Households earn a median $98,750 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. Population is roughly 2,975 with a median age of 47. Around 0% of renters are cost-burdened. About 45% have a four-year degree. A median home runs $325,900 here, or 3.1 times local income. The ZIP holds roughly 1,026 housing units. On demographic stress specifically, 36879 scores 17/100. The tenure split is 90% owner-occupied to 10% rented.

On balance 36879 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.