ZIP 72404 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 72404 in Craighead County, Arkansas carries a composite property-distress score of 32/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (91/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (80/100), FEMA disaster exposure (65/100)). Structural risk reads 70/100 against active distress of 7/100. Its standout signals are structural risk (70/100), construction/permit lag (54/100), institutional ownership (53/100). mortgage stress (22/100) stay muted.

The contraction-phase market in 72404 posted values that fell 0.6% over the year, 2.6% off the recent peak, and 9% higher over three years, at 34/100 phase confidence. Falling values surface more motivated sellers and below-market exits.

Households earn a median $67,000 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. 11.8% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The tenure split is 64% owner-occupied to 36% rented. Rent burden reaches 33% of tenant households. 29,722 residents call 72404 home, typically aged 37. Around 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 29/100. Home values center near $247,100, an affordability ratio of 3.5× — accessible. Vacancy runs 6.3%. The ZIP holds roughly 13,107 housing units.

On the whole, 72404 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. While 72404 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

Big metro or rural, 72404 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 32/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Craighead County, Arkansas and the nation. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 72404, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

72404's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. The point of the 72404 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.