ZIP 70128 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Orleans County, Louisiana, ZIP 70128 scores 38 of 100 for composite distress, a moderate level on DLRadar's distress index. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (98/100), FEMA disaster exposure (97/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (91/100). Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (83/100), institutional ownership (75/100), construction/permit lag (61/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (30/100). Latent structural risk is 83/100 while live distress already moving reads 9/100.

The market reads peak — home values rose 1.7% year on year, 1.0% off the recent peak, and 15% lower over three years, at 16/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Population is roughly 22,973 with a median age of 37. The typical home is worth about $240,200 (4.1× income). 65% of housing is owner-occupied. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 38/100. The ZIP holds roughly 8,795 housing units. At $53,538, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Vacancy runs 10.5%. Educational attainment sits at 29% bachelor's-or-above. Rent burden reaches 55% of tenant households. Roughly 24.8% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory.

On the whole, 70128 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. There is no property file for 70128 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.

Big metro or rural, 70128 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 38/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Orleans County, Louisiana and the nation. Where the record is thin for 70128, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

Behind 70128's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. Practically, 70128 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.