ZIP 72529 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Sharp County, Arkansas's ZIP 72529 registers 23/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Its heaviest discrete signals: institutional ownership (69/100), structural risk (50/100), mortgage stress (32/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (32/100) register low. Structural exposure scores 50 and live distress 9 on the 0–100 scale. Environmental exposure also runs high (flood (NFIP) exposure (90/100), FEMA disaster exposure (71/100)).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 3.3% over the trailing year, and 30% higher over three years (phase confidence 24/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Around 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 31/100. Around 44% of renters are cost-burdened. There are about 3,202 housing units across 72529. Roughly 19.9% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. The tenure split is 85% owner-occupied to 15% rented. At $35,305, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The vacancy rate is 31.1% — elevated. A median home runs $94,700 here, or 2.5 times local income. Population is roughly 5,090 with a median age of 51.

Net-net, 72529 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. 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: 72529's 23/100 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 72529, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

72529'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 72529 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.