ZIP 77081 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Harris County, Texas, ZIP 77081 scores 37 of 100 for composite distress, a moderate level on DLRadar's public-record index. What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (82/100), institutional ownership (69/100), construction/permit lag (60/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (24/100) register low. The split runs 82/100 structural to 7/100 active on the ground. 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 77081 posted values that rose 2.7% over the year, and 1% higher over three years (phase confidence 17/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

About 20% have a four-year degree. 33.5% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Rent burden reaches 41% of tenant households. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 49/100. At $42,228, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. About 51,366 people live here, median age 28. There are about 21,033 housing units across 77081. Vacancy runs 8.6%. The tenure split is 6% owner-occupied to 94% rented. The typical home is worth about $274,000 (5.8× income).

On the whole, 77081 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. There is no property file for 77081 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.

Big metro or rural, 77081 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 37/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Harris County, Texas and the nation. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 77081, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

Behind 77081'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. Practically, 77081 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.