ZIP 71601 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 71601 (Jefferson County, Arkansas) at a low 25/100 for overall property distress. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (81/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (76/100)). Structural exposure scores 54 and live distress 6 on the 0–100 scale. What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (54/100), institutional ownership (39/100), construction/permit lag (27/100). By contrast, construction/permit lag (27/100) and mortgage stress (20/100) register low.

The peak-phase market in 71601 posted values that rose 2.7% over the year, and 23% higher over three years, at 22/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Households earn a median $36,688 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The ZIP holds roughly 6,301 housing units. Rent burden reaches 47% of tenant households. Educational attainment sits at 16% bachelor's-or-above. Roughly 32.6% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. 13,981 residents call 71601 home, typically aged 32. The vacancy rate is 25.7% — elevated. The typical home is worth about $80,000 (1.9× income, relatively affordable). The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 35/100. Owners hold 54% of homes, renters 46%.

On the whole, 71601 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. No parcel file is published for 71601 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

The 71601 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 25/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 71601 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Jefferson County, Arkansas. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 71601 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

Behind 71601's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. The point of the 71601 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.