ZIP 70542 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 70542's composite property-distress score is 27/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Vermilion County, Louisiana. Latent structural risk is 61/100 while live distress already moving reads 8/100. Environmental exposure also runs high (flood (NFIP) exposure (78/100), FEMA disaster exposure (78/100), climate & FEMA risk (68/100)). Leading the profile are institutional ownership (61/100), structural risk (61/100), construction/permit lag (34/100). On the quiet end sit construction/permit lag (34/100) and mortgage stress (26/100).

The market reads expansion — home values rose 6.3% year on year, and 9% higher over three years, at 69/100 phase confidence. Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

Vacancy runs 22.0%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. There are about 1,457 housing units across 70542. Home values center near $93,500, an affordability ratio of 2.1× — accessible. On demographic stress specifically, 70542 scores 33/100. At $52,639, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Around 10% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 3,499 residents call 70542 home, typically aged 47. 15.9% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. 85% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 65% of renters are cost-burdened.

On the whole, 70542 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 70542 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 27/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 70542 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Vermilion County, Louisiana. Sparse data for 70542 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

Each component behind 70542 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 27/100 roll-up. For a buyer, 70542 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.