ZIP 71021 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Webster County, Louisiana's ZIP 71021 registers 28/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (61/100), institutional ownership (44/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (21/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (78/100), climate & FEMA risk (63/100). Structurally it carries 61/100, against 6/100 of stress already in motion.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.2% year on year (phase confidence 14/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Median household income is $18,807, below the U.S. median near $78,000. 50.1% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. 512 residents call 71021 home, typically aged 44. Rent burden reaches 49% of tenant households. The tenure split is 62% owner-occupied to 38% rented. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 45/100. Vacancy runs 28.8%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. A median home runs $76,700 here, or 3.8 times local income. Around 3% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. There are about 357 housing units across 71021.

On the whole, 71021 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.

No ZIP is too small to score: 71021 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 28/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 71021 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

Behind 71021's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. For a buyer, 71021 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.