ZIP 71654 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 71654 in Desha County, Arkansas carries a composite property-distress score of 21/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. Its standout signals are institutional ownership (52/100), construction/permit lag (50/100), structural risk (50/100). mortgage stress (25/100) stay muted. Latent structural risk is 50/100 while live distress already moving reads 7/100. Environmental exposure also runs high (flood (NFIP) exposure (88/100)).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 3.3% over the trailing year (phase confidence 24/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Households earn a median $40,839 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Vacancy runs 15.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Home values center near $97,300, an affordability ratio of 2.3× — accessible. Around 46% of renters are cost-burdened. The ZIP holds roughly 1,997 housing units. Owners hold 54% of homes, renters 46%. The poverty rate is 32.6% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. On demographic stress specifically, 71654 scores 36/100. Around 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 4,290 residents call 71654 home, typically aged 37.

Net-net, 71654 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. There is no property file for 71654 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.

No ZIP is too small to score: 71654 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 21/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 71654 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

Behind 71654'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. Treat 71654 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.