ZIP 71301 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

ZIP code 71301 in Rapides County, Louisiana carries a composite property-distress score of 31/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Structural risk reads 69/100 against active distress of 7/100. What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (69/100), institutional ownership (62/100), construction/permit lag (49/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (25/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (83/100), climate & FEMA risk (82/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (77/100).

The market reads contraction — home values held roughly flat year on year, 3.5% off the recent peak, and 3% higher over three years, at 35/100 phase confidence. A cooling market tends to open discount-to-value windows.

There are about 9,057 housing units across 71301. Households earn a median $44,330 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. A median home runs $160,800 here, or 3.5 times local income. Vacancy runs 25.7%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. About 17,266 people live here, median age 40. Rent burden reaches 52% of tenant households. On demographic stress specifically, 71301 scores 40/100. Roughly 26.7% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. The tenure split is 50% owner-occupied to 50% rented. About 22% have a four-year degree.

Net-net, 71301 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.