ZIP 77518 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 77518 in Galveston County, Texas carries a composite property-distress score of 34/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. The split runs 74/100 structural to 7/100 active on the ground. Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (74/100), institutional ownership (59/100), construction/permit lag (52/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (24/100) register low. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (95/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (90/100), FEMA disaster exposure (74/100).

Prices here sit in a recovery phase: values rose 2.7% over the trailing year, and 9% higher over three years, at 17/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

9,935 residents call 77518 home, typically aged 34. The vacancy rate is 6.3%. A median home runs $201,500 here, or 3.1 times local income. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 36/100. The poverty rate is 28.0% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. There are about 4,024 housing units across 77518. 61% of housing is owner-occupied. Rent burden reaches 51% of tenant households. Around 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Median household income is $54,806, below the U.S. median near $78,000.

Taken together, 77518 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. No parcel file is published for 77518 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

Whether 77518 runs hot or quiet, its 34/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 77518 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Galveston County, Texas or nationwide. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 77518 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

Each component behind 77518 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 34/100 roll-up. In workflow terms, 77518 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.