ZIP 77018 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Harris County, Texas · Distress market
ZIP code 77018 in Harris County, Texas carries a composite property-distress score of 37/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (82/100), institutional ownership (69/100), construction/permit lag (60/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (24/100) register low. On the structural side it scores 82/100, with 7/100 of stress already active. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (95/100), FEMA disaster exposure (89/100)).
The recovery-phase market in 77018 posted values that rose 2.7% over the year, and 15% higher over three years (phase confidence 17/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.
Median household income is $121,658, above the U.S. median near $78,000. Roughly 8.9% live below the poverty line. Around 60% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The ZIP holds roughly 13,831 housing units. A median home runs $584,600 here, or 4.5 times local income. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 31/100. Around 48% of renters are cost-burdened. The tenure split is 71% owner-occupied to 29% rented. The vacancy rate is 9.1%. 29,595 residents call 77018 home, typically aged 37.
Overall, 77018 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. 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: 77018's 37/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 77018 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.
The 37/100 figure for 77018 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. For a buyer, 77018 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.
Signal-by-signal read on 77018
Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.
ZIP 77018 Stress Report snapshot
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 77018, the same set carried on every parcel.
Other Harris County ZIP codes
Related reports across Harris County, Texas
Further distress data across Harris County, Texas at ZIP, county and state level.
Unlock the full ZIP 77018 acquisition report
Pull every distressed parcel in 77018 — owner, address, APN, distress score, lender exposure and exit read — with funding and closing one click away. Nationwide coverage, continuously updated.
Rules-based scoring — each signal ties to a public dataset · methodology