ZIP 77002 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 77002's composite property-distress score is 37/100 - DLRadar classes that as moderate for Harris County, Texas. On the structural side it scores 82/100, with 7/100 of stress already active. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (82/100), institutional ownership (69/100), construction/permit lag (60/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (24/100). Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (95/100), FEMA disaster exposure (89/100).

Prices here sit in a recovery phase: values rose 2.7% over the trailing year, at 17/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

Population is roughly 19,616 with a median age of 36. Home values center near $305,000, an affordability ratio of 3.4× — accessible. The tenure split is 9% owner-occupied to 91% rented. The ZIP holds roughly 9,439 housing units. Median household income is $85,436, near the U.S. median near $78,000. Vacancy runs 21.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Educational attainment sits at 37% bachelor's-or-above. The poverty rate is 15.6%. Rent burden reaches 35% of tenant households. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 36/100.

Taken together, 77002 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. 77002 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

The number is not local guesswork: 77002's 37/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 77002 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

Behind 77002's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. For an operator, 77002 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.