ZIP 39429 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Marion County, Mississippi, ZIP 39429 scores 17 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. Latent structural risk is 37/100 while live distress already moving reads 5/100. The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (37/100), institutional ownership (35/100), mortgage stress (18/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (18/100) and construction/permit lag (2/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 3.8% over the trailing year, and 25% higher over three years (phase confidence 28/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Households earn a median $42,953 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Vacancy runs 16.5%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Around 28% of renters are cost-burdened. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 31/100. The poverty rate is 18.9% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Owners hold 76% of homes, renters 24%. Population is roughly 16,583 with a median age of 41. The typical home is worth about $141,700 (3.1× income, relatively affordable). About 13% have a four-year degree. There are about 7,559 housing units across 39429.

Net-net, 39429 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

No ZIP is too small to score: 39429 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 17/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 39429, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

39429's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. Practically, 39429 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.