ZIP 70038 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 70038's composite property-distress score is 37/100 - DLRadar classes that as moderate for Plaquemines County, Louisiana. Latent structural risk is 83/100 while live distress already moving reads 0/100. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (83/100), institutional ownership (69/100). Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (94/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (85/100), climate & FEMA risk (72/100)).

The market reads peak — home values rose 1.7% year on year, 1.0% off the recent peak, at 16/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 26/100. Vacancy runs 29.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Educational attainment sits at 0% bachelor's-or-above. The ZIP holds roughly 69 housing units. Roughly 0.0% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. About 29 people live here. 100% of housing is owner-occupied.

Taken together, 70038 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

The number is not local guesswork: 70038's 37/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Where the public record is thin for 70038, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

70038's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. The point of the 70038 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.