ZIP 47872 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 47872 (Parke County, Indiana) at a low 19/100 for overall property distress. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (74/100). What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (46/100), structural risk (45/100), institutional ownership (44/100). mortgage stress (10/100) stay muted. Structurally it carries 45/100, against 3/100 of stress already in motion.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.1% over the trailing year, and 49% higher over three years, at 30/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

The tenure split is 80% owner-occupied to 20% rented. The ZIP holds roughly 3,802 housing units. Home values center near $161,500, an affordability ratio of 2.3× — accessible. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 31/100. About 8,641 people live here, median age 41. Rent burden reaches 43% of tenant households. Vacancy runs 23.1%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Households earn a median $66,508 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The poverty rate is 20.1% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Educational attainment sits at 15% bachelor's-or-above.

On the whole, 47872 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. No parcel file is published for 47872 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

No ZIP is too small to score: 47872 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 19/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Sparse data for 47872 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

47872's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. Treat 47872 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.