ZIP 70647 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 70647 (Calcasieu County, Louisiana) at a moderate 35/100 for overall property distress. Structural exposure scores 77 and live distress 7 on the 0–100 scale. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (84/100), FEMA disaster exposure (83/100). Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (77/100), institutional ownership (56/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (23/100) register low.

The market reads recovery — home values rose 2.1% year on year, 3.1% off the recent peak, and 1% higher over three years, at 35/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

About 12,056 people live here, median age 37. The tenure split is 86% owner-occupied to 14% rented. There are about 5,108 housing units across 70647. On demographic stress specifically, 70647 scores 26/100. A median home runs $270,900 here, or 3.0 times local income. About 22% have a four-year degree. Roughly 9.0% live below the poverty line. Households earn a median $83,048 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. Vacancy runs 13.9%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Rent burden reaches 20% of tenant households.

Net-net, 70647 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.