ZIP 71457 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 71457 (Natchitoches County, Louisiana) at a moderate 31/100 for overall property distress. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (83/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (68/100). Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (71/100), institutional ownership (61/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (26/100) register low. Structural exposure scores 71 and live distress 8 on the 0–100 scale.

The market reads neutral — home values rose 4.2% year on year, and 10% higher over three years, at 29/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

There are about 12,078 housing units across 71457. Vacancy runs 19.5%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The tenure split is 57% owner-occupied to 43% rented. About 29% have a four-year degree. Roughly 25.3% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Households earn a median $47,410 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. A median home runs $197,000 here, or 4.1 times local income. Rent burden reaches 51% of tenant households. About 25,485 people live here, median age 33. On demographic stress specifically, 71457 scores 39/100.

Net-net, 71457 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.