ZIP 68972 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 68972's composite property-distress score is 14/100 - DLRadar classes that as minimal for Franklin County, Nebraska. Its standout signals are construction/permit lag (87/100), structural risk (32/100), institutional ownership (3/100). On the quiet end sit structural risk (32/100) and institutional ownership (3/100). The latent-versus-live split is 32/100 structural and 0/100 already moving.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 3.3% over the trailing year (phase confidence 24/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

About 14% have a four-year degree. The poverty rate is 10.9%. 60% of housing is owner-occupied. The vacancy rate is 4.8%. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 27/100. The ZIP holds roughly 76 housing units. At $44,583, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Around 17% of renters are cost-burdened. Population is roughly 221 with a median age of 39.

Net-net, 68972 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. No parcel file is published for 68972 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 68972's 14/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Franklin County, Nebraska or any ZIP coast to coast. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 68972, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

The 14/100 for 68972 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. For a buyer, 68972 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.