ZIP 55734 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 55734 (St. Louis County, Minnesota) at a moderate 37/100 for overall property distress. Structural exposure scores 82 and live distress 7 on the 0–100 scale. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (85/100), structural risk (82/100), institutional ownership (62/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (25/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (92/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (86/100), FEMA disaster exposure (79/100).

The market reads expansion — home values rose 7.1% year on year, 1.8% off the recent peak, and 18% higher over three years, at 47/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

About 6,332 people live here, median age 41. Roughly 15.2% live below the poverty line. A median home runs $158,700 here, or 2.2 times local income. Rent burden reaches 33% of tenant households. The tenure split is 79% owner-occupied to 21% rented. There are about 3,370 housing units across 55734. Vacancy runs 20.9%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Households earn a median $65,750 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. On demographic stress specifically, 55734 scores 27/100. About 26% have a four-year degree.

Net-net, 55734 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.