ZIP 70002 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 70002 (Jefferson County, Louisiana) at a moderate 39/100 for overall property distress. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (97/100), FEMA disaster exposure (95/100). On the structural side it scores 87/100, with 8/100 of stress already active. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (87/100), institutional ownership (75/100), construction/permit lag (71/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (28/100) register low.

The market reads neutral — home values rose 3.5% year on year, and 1% higher over three years (phase confidence 24/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

Households earn a median $65,576 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The tenure split is 51% owner-occupied to 49% rented. Roughly 12.2% live below the poverty line. The ZIP holds roughly 9,782 housing units. Around 42% of renters are cost-burdened. About 50% have a four-year degree. About 19,240 people live here, median age 38. On demographic stress specifically, 70002 scores 37/100. A median home runs $381,800 here, or 5.8 times local income. The vacancy rate is 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.