ZIP 71426 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Sabine County, Louisiana's ZIP 71426 registers 25/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (73/100)). Leading the profile are institutional ownership (66/100), construction/permit lag (64/100), structural risk (53/100). Structural exposure scores 53 and live distress 0 on the 0–100 scale.

The market reads contraction — home values held roughly flat year on year, 2.3% off the recent peak (phase confidence 36/100). A cooling market tends to open discount-to-value windows.

Households earn a median $35,833 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Educational attainment sits at 6% bachelor's-or-above. The tenure split is 83% owner-occupied to 18% rented. The ZIP holds roughly 83 housing units. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 31/100. Around 40% of renters are cost-burdened. Vacancy runs 41.2%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Population is roughly 123 with a median age of 65. 14.6% of residents fall below the poverty threshold.

On the whole, 71426 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

No ZIP is too small to score: 71426 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 25/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 71426 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

The 25/100 figure for 71426 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. For an operator, 71426 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.