ZIP 70668 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

ZIP code 70668 in Calcasieu County, Louisiana carries a composite property-distress score of 39/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (88/100), institutional ownership (66/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (27/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (95/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (88/100), FEMA disaster exposure (83/100). The latent-versus-live split is 88/100 structural and 8/100 already moving.

The market reads recovery — home values rose 2.1% year on year, 3.1% off the recent peak, and 20% higher over three years (phase confidence 35/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

Around 47% of renters are cost-burdened. Roughly 25.6% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Households earn a median $48,492 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. About 6,347 people live here, median age 36. On demographic stress specifically, 70668 scores 36/100. The ZIP holds roughly 2,788 housing units. The vacancy rate is 20.7% — elevated. The tenure split is 71% owner-occupied to 29% rented. About 10% have a four-year degree. A median home runs $128,800 here, or 2.9 times local income.

Net-net, 70668 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.