ZIP 71862 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Hempstead County, Arkansas's ZIP 71862 registers 28/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Structural exposure scores 64 and live distress 7 on the 0–100 scale. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (65/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (60/100). Its standout signals are construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (64/100), institutional ownership (49/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (23/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 3.3% over the trailing year (phase confidence 24/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

699 residents call 71862 home, typically aged 43. Median household income is $38,504, below the U.S. median near $78,000. There are about 307 housing units across 71862. Rent burden reaches 97% of tenant households. 73% of housing is owner-occupied. Educational attainment sits at 7% bachelor's-or-above. The vacancy rate is 11.8% — elevated. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 45/100. The typical home is worth about $55,900. The poverty rate is 17.0% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate.

Net-net, 71862 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

The number is not local guesswork: 71862's 28/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Sparse data for 71862 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

71862's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For a buyer, 71862 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.