ZIP 70426 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 70426 (Washington County, Louisiana) at a moderate 38/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (85/100), institutional ownership (69/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (28/100). Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (95/100), climate & FEMA risk (81/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (80/100)). The latent-versus-live split is 85/100 structural and 8/100 already moving.

The neutral-phase market in 70426 posted values that rose 4.0% over the year, and 21% higher over three years (phase confidence 28/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

At $24,915, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The poverty rate is 31.5% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. The typical home is worth about $126,600 (5.0× income). Around 76% of renters are cost-burdened. The vacancy rate is 24.4% — elevated. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 48/100. Around 7% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The ZIP holds roughly 2,586 housing units. 68% of housing is owner-occupied. Population is roughly 5,880 with a median age of 43.

On the whole, 70426 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.