ZIP 71973 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

ZIP code 71973 in Polk County, Arkansas carries a composite property-distress score of 22/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. The latent-versus-live split is 50/100 structural and 5/100 already moving. What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (50/100), institutional ownership (37/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (37/100) and mortgage stress (17/100) register low.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.8% year on year (phase confidence 36/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Households earn a median $34,330 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Roughly 35.9% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. The vacancy rate is 23.6% — elevated. Around 16% of renters are cost-burdened. A median home runs $93,800 here, or 2.5 times local income. On demographic stress specifically, 71973 scores 32/100. The tenure split is 74% owner-occupied to 26% rented. About 1,259 people live here, median age 30. About 14% have a four-year degree. The ZIP holds roughly 539 housing units.

Net-net, 71973 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.