ZIP 72421 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Craighead County, Arkansas · High Vacancy market
In Craighead County, Arkansas, ZIP 72421 scores 31 of 100 for composite distress, a moderate level on DLRadar's distress index. The latent-versus-live split is 68/100 structural and 7/100 already moving. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (89/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (78/100). Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (68/100), construction/permit lag (56/100), institutional ownership (49/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (22/100).
Prices here sit in a contraction phase: values fell 0.6% over the trailing year, 2.6% off the recent peak (phase confidence 34/100). Softening prices widen the spread between distressed and market value — what acquisition buyers watch for.
The tenure split is 57% owner-occupied to 43% rented. The typical home is worth about $90,000 (2.0× income, relatively affordable). The poverty rate is 32.4% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Rent burden reaches 43% of tenant households. About 688 people live here, median age 36. About 10% have a four-year degree. Vacancy runs 20.8%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The ZIP holds roughly 266 housing units. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 36/100. At $38,578, median income runs below typical U.S. levels.
On the whole, 72421 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. 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: 72421's 31/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 72421, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.
Each component behind 72421 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 31/100 roll-up. For a buyer, 72421 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.
Signal-by-signal read on 72421
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — 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 72421 distress snapshot
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 72421, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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Every distressed parcel in 72421 comes with owner and address, APN, its own distress score, bank exposure and an exit-velocity read — plus a one-click path to owner and lender records, refreshed continuously nationwide.
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