ZIP 72401 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Craighead County, Arkansas · High Poverty market
Scored purely from public records, 72401 (Craighead County, Arkansas) returns a moderate composite of 31/100. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (90/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (79/100), FEMA disaster exposure (66/100)). The pressure is most legible in structural risk (70/100), construction/permit lag (54/100), institutional ownership (53/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (22/100). On the structural side it scores 70/100, with 7/100 of stress already active.
Prices here sit in a contraction phase: values held roughly flat over the trailing year, 2.3% off the recent peak, and 13% higher over three years, at 31/100 phase confidence. Falling values surface more motivated sellers and below-market exits.
The vacancy rate is 11.7% — elevated. Home values center near $188,600, an affordability ratio of 4.3×. Rent burden reaches 51% of tenant households. Owners hold 47% of homes, renters 53%. Educational attainment sits at 24% bachelor's-or-above. Households earn a median $43,412 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. About 42,065 people live here, median age 34. The ZIP holds roughly 19,301 housing units. The poverty rate is 28.2% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 41/100.
Taken together, 72401 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.
The number is not local guesswork: 72401's 31/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 72401 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.
72401'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 72401 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.
What is driving ZIP 72401’s distress
Tax-delinquent parcels, institutional ownership, insurance strain, flood risk, construction lag, price dislocation and auction speed — plus the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
The 72401 distress snapshot
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 72401, the same set carried on every parcel.
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