ZIP 71968 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 71968 (Garland County, Arkansas) at a moderate 38/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (56/100), institutional ownership (53/100), insurance pressure (44/100). On the quiet end sit price dislocation (25/100) and mortgage stress (23/100). Structural risk reads 56/100 against active distress of 7/100. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (87/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (82/100), FEMA disaster exposure (65/100)).

The market reads contraction — home values fell 1.6% year on year, 9.5% off the recent peak, and 21% higher over three years (phase confidence 51/100). Falling values surface more motivated sellers and below-market exits.

Households earn a median $75,651 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. Rent burden reaches 10% of tenant households. 83% of housing is owner-occupied. A median home runs $215,000 here, or 2.3 times local income. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 23/100. Population is roughly 4,578 with a median age of 41. The poverty rate is 9.2%. The vacancy rate is 24.1% — elevated. About 21% have a four-year degree. The ZIP holds roughly 2,182 housing units.

On the whole, 71968 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

Whether 71968 runs hot or quiet, its 38/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 71968 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Garland County, Arkansas or nationwide. 71968 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

71968'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. Treat 71968 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.