ZIP 72821 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Franklin County, Arkansas's ZIP 72821 registers 16/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (43/100), structural risk (33/100), institutional ownership (23/100). institutional ownership (23/100) and mortgage stress (12/100) stay muted. The split runs 33/100 structural to 4/100 active on the ground.

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

About 2,022 people live here, median age 39. The vacancy rate is 16.9% — elevated. Owners hold 70% of homes, renters 30%. At $32,151, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. A median home runs $100,000 here, or 2.6 times local income. The poverty rate is 38.8% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Educational attainment sits at 9% bachelor's-or-above. Rent burden reaches 59% of tenant households. There are about 876 housing units across 72821. On demographic stress specifically, 72821 scores 39/100.

Net-net, 72821 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.

No ZIP is too small to score: 72821 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 16/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 72821 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

72821'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. In workflow terms, 72821 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.