ZIP 38603 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 38603 in Benton County, Mississippi carries a composite property-distress score of 2/100 — a minimal reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. The most distinctive pressure shows up in mortgage stress (6/100), structural risk (4/100), institutional ownership (3/100). By contrast, structural risk (4/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) register low. On the structural side it scores 4/100, with 2/100 of stress already active.

The peak-phase market in 38603 posted values that rose 1.3% over the year, at 12/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

About 2,602 people live here, median age 52. Owners hold 91% of homes, renters 9%. Around 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. At $44,725, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The typical home is worth about $143,400 (2.9× income, relatively affordable). Vacancy runs 36.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. On demographic stress specifically, 38603 scores 27/100. Around 12% of renters are cost-burdened. The ZIP holds roughly 1,797 housing units. Roughly 14.6% live below the poverty line.

Taken together, 38603 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. No parcel file is published for 38603 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

Whether 38603 runs hot or quiet, its 2/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 38603 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Benton County, Mississippi or nationwide. Where the record is thin for 38603, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

Behind 38603's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. For a buyer, 38603 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.