ZIP 71409 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 71409 in Rapides County, Louisiana carries a composite property-distress score of 32/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (70/100), institutional ownership (63/100), construction/permit lag (50/100). mortgage stress (25/100) stay muted. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (85/100), climate & FEMA risk (82/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (79/100). Structural risk reads 70/100 against active distress of 7/100.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.2% year on year, and 3% higher over three years, at 15/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

At $59,764, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 31/100. 14.3% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Educational attainment sits at 16% bachelor's-or-above. Owners hold 70% of homes, renters 30%. A median home runs $171,400 here, or 3.0 times local income. The ZIP holds roughly 2,956 housing units. Population is roughly 5,672 with a median age of 45. Rent burden reaches 30% of tenant households. The vacancy rate is 26.6% — elevated.

Net-net, 71409 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. No parcel file is published for 71409 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

The number is not local guesswork: 71409's 32/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 71409 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

Each component behind 71409 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 32/100 roll-up. For an operator, 71409 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.