ZIP 53178 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 53178 (Jefferson County, Wisconsin) at a minimal 12/100 for overall property distress. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (78/100). Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (24/100), institutional ownership (3/100), mortgage stress (2/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (3/100) and mortgage stress (2/100) register low. Structural exposure scores 24 and live distress 1 on the 0–100 scale.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.8% year on year, and 19% higher over three years, at 33/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

About 2,741 people live here, median age 49. Roughly 7.1% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. Vacancy runs 7.5%. Households earn a median $94,522 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. There are about 1,137 housing units across 53178. On demographic stress specifically, 53178 scores 27/100. A median home runs $371,500 here, or 3.6 times local income. Rent burden reaches 21% of tenant households. The tenure split is 74% owner-occupied to 26% rented. About 24% have a four-year degree.

Overall 53178 looks resilient on the surface, so the edge is isolating individual stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.