ZIP 70002 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 70002 (Jefferson County, Louisiana) at a moderate 38/100 for overall property distress. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (97/100), FEMA disaster exposure (94/100). On the structural side it scores 84/100, with 8/100 of stress already active. The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (84/100), institutional ownership (75/100), construction/permit lag (61/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (28/100) register low.

The market reads peak — home values rose 1.7% year on year, 1.0% off the recent peak, and 1% higher over three years (phase confidence 16/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

At $65,576, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Owners hold 51% of homes, renters 49%. The poverty rate is 12.2%. The ZIP holds roughly 9,782 housing units. Rent burden reaches 42% of tenant households. About 50% have a four-year degree. 19,240 residents call 70002 home, typically aged 38. On demographic stress specifically, 70002 scores 37/100. The typical home is worth about $381,800 (5.8× income). Vacancy runs 8.5%.

Net-net, 70002 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. 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: 70002 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 38/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 70002, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

70002's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For a buyer, 70002 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.