ZIP 72544 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 72544's composite property-distress score is 20/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Baxter County, Arkansas. The split runs 42/100 structural to 5/100 active on the ground. Its standout signals are construction/permit lag (43/100), structural risk (42/100), institutional ownership (28/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (28/100) and mortgage stress (15/100) register low. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (67/100)).

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.6% year on year, at 22/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

965 residents call 72544 home, typically aged 57. Rent burden reaches 0% of tenant households. Home values center near $193,100, an affordability ratio of 4.6×. Owners hold 89% of homes, renters 11%. Vacancy runs 41.7%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The ZIP holds roughly 707 housing units. Around 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 9.6% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. At $43,009, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 28/100.

Net-net, 72544 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. No parcel file is published for 72544 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

No ZIP is too small to score: 72544 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 20/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 72544 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

The 20/100 figure for 72544 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. In workflow terms, 72544 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.