ZIP 77039 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Harris County, Texas's ZIP 77039 registers 35/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Structural risk reads 77/100 against active distress of 7/100. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (94/100), FEMA disaster exposure (81/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (77/100), institutional ownership (64/100), construction/permit lag (46/100). mortgage stress (24/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 1.6% over the trailing year, and 15% higher over three years, at 19/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

28,335 residents call 77039 home, typically aged 32. Vacancy runs 7.4%. There are about 8,947 housing units across 77039. Rent burden reaches 44% of tenant households. Households earn a median $44,567 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Roughly 25.0% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. The tenure split is 60% owner-occupied to 40% rented. On demographic stress specifically, 77039 scores 38/100. A median home runs $165,600 here, or 3.3 times local income. About 5% have a four-year degree.

Taken together, 77039 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.