ZIP 71040 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

ZIP code 71040 in Claiborne County, Louisiana carries a composite property-distress score of 19/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (83/100). What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (50/100), institutional ownership (45/100), structural risk (40/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (21/100) register low. Structural risk reads 40/100 against active distress of 6/100.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 7.3% year on year, and 4% lower over three years, at 61/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

About 7,705 people live here, median age 40. Households earn a median $31,962 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. A median home runs $79,600 here, or 2.4 times local income. Vacancy runs 30.5%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. On demographic stress specifically, 71040 scores 41/100. There are about 3,497 housing units across 71040. The tenure split is 70% owner-occupied to 30% rented. Roughly 34.6% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. About 11% have a four-year degree. Rent burden reaches 73% of tenant households.

Net-net, 71040 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.