ZIP 68521 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Lancaster County, Nebraska's ZIP 68521 registers 30/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (91/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (60/100)). The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (66/100), construction/permit lag (63/100), institutional ownership (41/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (18/100) register low. The split runs 66/100 structural to 5/100 active on the ground.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.1% over the trailing year, and 14% higher over three years (phase confidence 20/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

56% of housing is owner-occupied. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 33/100. The vacancy rate is 3.9%. Around 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The typical home is worth about $252,800 (3.5× income, relatively affordable). Households earn a median $66,902 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. About 38,386 people live here, median age 31. The ZIP holds roughly 15,710 housing units. The poverty rate is 14.2%. Rent burden reaches 46% of tenant households.

Overall, 68521 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

Big metro or rural, 68521 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 30/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Lancaster County, Nebraska and the nation. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 68521 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

The 30/100 figure for 68521 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. Treat 68521 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.