ZIP 70802 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 70802 (East Baton Rouge County, Louisiana) at a moderate 31/100 for overall property distress. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (98/100), FEMA disaster exposure (94/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (88/100). On the structural side it scores 66/100, with 8/100 of stress already active. The pressure is most legible in institutional ownership (70/100), structural risk (66/100), mortgage stress (28/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (28/100) register low.

The peak-phase market in 70802 posted values that rose 1.6% over the year, and 16% higher over three years (phase confidence 19/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

On demographic stress specifically, 70802 scores 40/100. Owners hold 31% of homes, renters 69%. At $34,082, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. A median home runs $99,800 here, or 3.1 times local income. Around 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. About 23,964 people live here, median age 32. Rent burden reaches 46% of tenant households. The vacancy rate is 29.3% — elevated. Roughly 30.5% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. There are about 13,868 housing units across 70802.

Net-net, 70802 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. There is no property file for 70802 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.

Big metro or rural, 70802 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 31/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in East Baton Rouge County, Louisiana and the nation. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 70802, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

The 31/100 figure for 70802 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. For a buyer, 70802 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.