ZIP 71282 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 71282 in Madison County, Louisiana carries a composite property-distress score of 26/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (78/100). What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (60/100), institutional ownership (55/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (26/100) register low. Latent structural risk is 60/100 while live distress already moving reads 8/100.

Prices here sit in a contraction phase: values held roughly flat over the trailing year, 2.3% off the recent peak, and 10% higher over three years (phase confidence 36/100). Softening prices widen the spread between distressed and market value — what acquisition buyers watch for.

Owners hold 54% of homes, renters 46%. Rent burden reaches 35% of tenant households. The typical home is worth about $97,400 (2.4× income, relatively affordable). The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 37/100. 8,998 residents call 71282 home, typically aged 34. There are about 3,905 housing units across 71282. Vacancy runs 29.1%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. 37.9% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Households earn a median $37,344 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. About 14% have a four-year degree.

Taken together, 71282 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. 71282 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

No ZIP is too small to score: 71282 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 26/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Sparse data for 71282 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

The 26/100 for 71282 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. For an operator, 71282 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.