ZIP 72117 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 72117 (Pulaski County, Arkansas) at a moderate 35/100 for overall property distress. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (96/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (92/100), FEMA disaster exposure (65/100). The pressure is most legible in structural risk (78/100), construction/permit lag (72/100), institutional ownership (56/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (23/100) register low. The latent-versus-live split is 78/100 structural and 7/100 already moving.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.2% year on year, and 28% higher over three years (phase confidence 11/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Home values center near $141,600, an affordability ratio of 3.0× — accessible. About 28% have a four-year degree. There are about 6,735 housing units across 72117. Households earn a median $41,670 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. 14,339 residents call 72117 home, typically aged 37. The poverty rate is 30.2% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Vacancy runs 14.0%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Rent burden reaches 69% of tenant households. Owners hold 67% of homes, renters 33%. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 38/100.

Taken together, 72117 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. There is no property file for 72117 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.

The 72117 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 35/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 72117 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Pulaski County, Arkansas. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 72117, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

72117'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 72117 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.