ZIP 65609 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 65609's composite property-distress score is 25/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Ozark County, Missouri. Latent structural risk is 55/100 while live distress already moving reads 6/100. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (71/100). The sharpest non-environmental signals are construction/permit lag (91/100), structural risk (55/100), institutional ownership (46/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (21/100) register low.

The peak-phase market in 65609 posted values that rose 4.1% over the year (phase confidence 28/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

A median home runs $108,700 here, or 1.6 times local income. Vacancy runs 16.7%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. About 814 people live here, median age 40. About 5% have a four-year degree. There are about 366 housing units across 65609. The poverty rate is 12.3%. 87% of housing is owner-occupied. Households earn a median $64,375 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Around 41% of renters are cost-burdened. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 27/100.

On the whole, 65609 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.

No ZIP is too small to score: 65609 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 25/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 65609 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

Each component behind 65609 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 25/100 roll-up. For an operator, 65609 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.