ZIP 71409 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Rapides County, Louisiana's ZIP 71409 registers 31/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. The most distinctive pressure shows up in 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 latent-versus-live split is 69/100 structural and 7/100 already moving.

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

Households earn a median $59,764 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. On demographic stress specifically, 71409 scores 31/100. Roughly 14.3% live below the poverty line. About 16% have a four-year degree. The tenure split is 70% owner-occupied to 30% rented. A median home runs $171,400 here, or 3.0 times local income. The ZIP holds roughly 2,956 housing units. About 5,672 people live here, median age 45. Around 30% of renters are cost-burdened. The vacancy rate is 26.6% — elevated.

Net-net, 71409 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.