ZIP 72104 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 72104 (Hot Spring County, Arkansas) at a low 23/100 for overall property distress. Structural risk reads 50/100 against active distress of 7/100. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (81/100), FEMA disaster exposure (78/100). Property-level stress concentrates in institutional ownership (60/100), structural risk (50/100), mortgage stress (24/100). mortgage stress (24/100) and construction/permit lag (9/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 4.1% over the trailing year, and 14% higher over three years, at 26/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

23,222 residents call 72104 home, typically aged 42. 72% of housing is owner-occupied. Rent burden reaches 32% of tenant households. Vacancy runs 16.0%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. There are about 9,918 housing units across 72104. At $51,492, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 29/100. The poverty rate is 19.0% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. The typical home is worth about $127,700 (2.3× income, relatively affordable). Around 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Taken together, 72104 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.