ZIP 70131 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 70131's composite property-distress score is 37/100 - DLRadar classes that as moderate for Orleans County, Louisiana. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (98/100), FEMA disaster exposure (94/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (91/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (81/100), institutional ownership (74/100), construction/permit lag (54/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (30/100). Structural risk reads 81/100 against active distress of 9/100.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 1.7% over the trailing year, 1.0% off the recent peak, and 3% lower over three years, at 16/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

A median home runs $237,700 here, or 3.7 times local income. Around 36% of renters are cost-burdened. The ZIP holds roughly 11,844 housing units. The poverty rate is 16.6% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. 25,460 residents call 70131 home, typically aged 39. Households earn a median $64,294 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The vacancy rate is 15.3% — elevated. About 36% have a four-year degree. Owners hold 65% of homes, renters 35%. On demographic stress specifically, 70131 scores 32/100.

On the whole, 70131 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. 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: 70131 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 37/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Sparse data for 70131 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

Behind 70131'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. The point of the 70131 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.