ZIP 71439 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 71439 (Vernon County, Louisiana) at a low 27/100 for overall property distress. Structural exposure scores 58 and live distress 8 on the 0–100 scale. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (83/100), climate & FEMA risk (62/100). Property-level stress concentrates in institutional ownership (64/100), structural risk (58/100), construction/permit lag (41/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (27/100) register low.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 7.3% year on year, at 61/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

A median home runs $109,700 here, or 2.5 times local income. Vacancy runs 24.2%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. About 1,715 people live here, median age 27. The tenure split is 79% owner-occupied to 21% rented. There are about 710 housing units across 71439. Roughly 39.7% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Rent burden reaches 31% of tenant households. Households earn a median $47,284 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. On demographic stress specifically, 71439 scores 35/100. About 9% have a four-year degree.

Net-net, 71439 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.