ZIP 71418 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 71418 in Caldwell County, Louisiana carries a composite property-distress score of 16/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Leading the profile are construction/permit lag (48/100), institutional ownership (45/100), structural risk (35/100). By contrast, structural risk (35/100) and mortgage stress (20/100) register low. Structurally it carries 35/100, against 6/100 of stress already in motion. Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (78/100)).

The peak-phase market in 71418 posted values that held roughly flat over the year, 2.2% off the recent peak, and 23% higher over three years (phase confidence 32/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Median household income is $31,975, below the U.S. median near $78,000. Rent burden reaches 47% of tenant households. Roughly 32.4% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. 66% of housing is owner-occupied. About 9% have a four-year degree. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 38/100. A median home runs $91,500 here, or 2.8 times local income. There are about 2,741 housing units across 71418. The vacancy rate is 27.6% — elevated. About 5,351 people live here, median age 35.

On the whole, 71418 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Parcel-level detail for 71418 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.

Big metro or rural, 71418 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 16/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Caldwell County, Louisiana and the nation. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 71418 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

The 16/100 for 71418 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 a buyer, 71418 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.