ZIP 42048 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 42048 (Marshall County, Kentucky) at a moderate 33/100 for overall property distress. Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (88/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (80/100), climate & FEMA risk (64/100)). Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (81/100), structural risk (73/100), institutional ownership (65/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (27/100). Structural risk reads 73/100 against active distress of 8/100.

The peak-phase market in 42048 posted values that rose 4.7% over the year, and 12% higher over three years, at 33/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

The typical home is worth about $138,800 (2.9× income, relatively affordable). At $41,507, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Population is roughly 1,838 with a median age of 39. There are about 1,144 housing units across 42048. Vacancy runs 28.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The poverty rate is 29.0% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. 74% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 34/100. Rent burden reaches 40% of tenant households.

On the whole, 42048 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.