ZIP 70601 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 70601 (Calcasieu County, Louisiana) at a moderate 39/100 for overall property distress. Structural risk reads 88/100 against active distress of 8/100. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (88/100), institutional ownership (66/100). mortgage stress (27/100) stay muted. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (95/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (88/100), FEMA disaster exposure (83/100).

Prices here sit in a recovery phase: values rose 2.1% over the trailing year, 3.1% off the recent peak, and 16% lower over three years, at 35/100 phase confidence. Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

31,843 residents call 70601 home, typically aged 38. Home values center near $162,200, an affordability ratio of 3.3× — accessible. Median household income is $49,545, below the U.S. median near $78,000. Vacancy runs 24.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Owners hold 60% of homes, renters 40%. 27.4% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Rent burden reaches 39% of tenant households. Educational attainment sits at 25% bachelor's-or-above. There are about 16,565 housing units across 70601. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 36/100.

Taken together, 70601 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.