ZIP 70342 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

St. Mary County, Louisiana's ZIP 70342 registers 30/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (95/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (94/100), climate & FEMA risk (88/100)). The most distinctive pressure shows up in institutional ownership (72/100), structural risk (64/100), mortgage stress (29/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (29/100). Structural exposure scores 64 and live distress 9 on the 0–100 scale.

The neutral-phase market in 70342 posted values that rose 4.0% over the year, and 17% higher over three years, at 28/100 phase confidence. Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

77% of housing is owner-occupied. The poverty rate is 20.0% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Vacancy runs 13.7%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. There are about 1,958 housing units across 70342. The typical home is worth about $212,400 (3.4× income, relatively affordable). Rent burden reaches 28% of tenant households. Population is roughly 4,732 with a median age of 33. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 31/100. Around 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. At $56,146, median income runs below typical U.S. levels.

On the whole, 70342 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.