ZIP 72072 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 72072 in Lonoke County, Arkansas carries a composite property-distress score of 23/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (79/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (79/100). Its standout signals are structural risk (51/100), institutional ownership (47/100), mortgage stress (21/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (21/100) and construction/permit lag (1/100) register low. On the structural side it scores 51/100, with 6/100 of stress already active.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.3% year on year, at 14/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

The typical home is worth about $115,400 (2.2× income, relatively affordable). The poverty rate is 4.4% — low. About 295 people live here, median age 60. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 31/100. Owners hold 83% of homes, renters 17%. Educational attainment sits at 14% bachelor's-or-above. Vacancy runs 28.0%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. There are about 179 housing units across 72072. Households earn a median $47,750 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Rent burden reaches 69% of tenant households.

Net-net, 72072 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. No parcel file is published for 72072 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

The 72072 read uses the identical scoring model applied coast to coast, which means its 23/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 72072 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Lonoke County, Arkansas. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 72072, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

72072's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. Practically, 72072 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.