ZIP 70518 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Lafayette County, Louisiana's ZIP 70518 registers 34/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (96/100), climate & FEMA risk (90/100), FEMA disaster exposure (89/100). The latent-versus-live split is 76/100 structural and 8/100 already moving. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (76/100), institutional ownership (69/100), construction/permit lag (47/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (26/100) register low.

The market reads peak — home values rose 3.2% year on year, 1.1% off the recent peak, and 3% higher over three years (phase confidence 29/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Households earn a median $103,574 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. The vacancy rate is 8.3%. Around 50% of renters are cost-burdened. About 38% have a four-year degree. Roughly 14.8% live below the poverty line. A median home runs $297,900 here, or 2.8 times local income. On demographic stress specifically, 70518 scores 28/100. About 16,667 people live here, median age 34. The tenure split is 82% owner-occupied to 18% rented. The ZIP holds roughly 7,010 housing units.

Net-net, 70518 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.