ZIP 72401 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 72401 (Craighead County, Arkansas) at a moderate 32/100 for overall property distress. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (90/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (80/100), FEMA disaster exposure (74/100). Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (70/100), institutional ownership (57/100), construction/permit lag (50/100). mortgage stress (22/100) stay muted. Structural risk reads 70/100 against active distress of 7/100.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.5% over the trailing year, 2.1% off the recent peak, and 13% higher over three years, at 24/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Vacancy runs 11.7%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The typical home is worth about $188,600 (4.3× income). Rent burden reaches 51% of tenant households. 47% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. At $43,412, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. 42,065 residents call 72401 home, typically aged 34. There are about 19,301 housing units across 72401. 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.