ZIP 72521 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Sharp County, Arkansas's ZIP 72521 registers 23/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. The most distinctive pressure shows up in institutional ownership (55/100), structural risk (50/100), mortgage stress (26/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (26/100) register low. Environmental exposure also runs high (flood (NFIP) exposure (86/100), FEMA disaster exposure (67/100), climate & FEMA risk (63/100)). Structural risk reads 50/100 against active distress of 8/100.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 3.1% over the trailing year, and 10% higher over three years (phase confidence 23/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

At $54,130, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The poverty rate is 17.3% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. About 5,176 people live here, median age 40. Around 32% of renters are cost-burdened. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 30/100. Educational attainment sits at 13% bachelor's-or-above. Home values center near $146,800, an affordability ratio of 2.2× — accessible. The vacancy rate is 19.6% — elevated. Owners hold 68% of homes, renters 32%. The ZIP holds roughly 2,249 housing units.

Net-net, 72521 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. 72521 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

Big metro or rural, 72521 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 23/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Sharp County, Arkansas and the nation. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 72521 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

The 23/100 for 72521 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. Treat 72521 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.