ZIP 77550 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Galveston County, Texas's ZIP 77550 registers 34/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (95/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (91/100), FEMA disaster exposure (78/100)). What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (76/100), institutional ownership (62/100), construction/permit lag (53/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (24/100). On the structural side it scores 76/100, with 7/100 of stress already active.

The recovery-phase market in 77550 posted values that rose 2.7% over the year, and 1% lower over three years, at 17/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

A median home runs $325,900 here, or 6.1 times local income. The tenure split is 40% owner-occupied to 60% rented. 23,542 residents call 77550 home, typically aged 39. There are about 16,088 housing units across 77550. The poverty rate is 24.2% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. On demographic stress specifically, 77550 scores 46/100. Vacancy runs 26.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Households earn a median $46,262 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Around 47% of renters are cost-burdened. Educational attainment sits at 33% bachelor's-or-above.

On the whole, 77550 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. 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: 77550's 34/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Where the public record is thin for 77550, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

77550's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. Treat 77550 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.