ZIP 70520 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Lafayette County, Louisiana · High Vacancy market
Lafayette County, Louisiana's ZIP 70520 registers 36/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Environmental exposure also runs high (flood (NFIP) exposure (97/100), climate & FEMA risk (95/100), FEMA disaster exposure (78/100)). What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (79/100), institutional ownership (64/100), construction/permit lag (63/100). mortgage stress (25/100) stay muted. The split runs 79/100 structural to 8/100 active on the ground.
The expansion-phase market in 70520 posted values that rose 5.4% over the year, and 4% higher over three years (phase confidence 56/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.
About 20,134 people live here, median age 38. The typical home is worth about $207,500 (3.0× income, relatively affordable). Median household income is $65,956, below the U.S. median near $78,000. The ZIP holds roughly 9,059 housing units. Owners hold 81% of homes, renters 19%. The vacancy rate is 12.1% — elevated. About 21% have a four-year degree. 16.7% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Around 46% of renters are cost-burdened. On demographic stress specifically, 70520 scores 31/100.
On the whole, 70520 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.
The number is not local guesswork: 70520's 36/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. 70520 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
70520's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. The point of the 70520 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 70520
Tax arrears, institutional buyers, insurance load, flood exposure, stalled construction, dislocated pricing and auction velocity — together with the 0 individual distressed properties are listed in full, with owner, address, APN, per-parcel score and exit-velocity read.
Snapshot: 70520 by the numbers
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 70520, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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