ZIP 77642 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Jefferson County, Texas's ZIP 77642 registers 34/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Structural exposure scores 74 and live distress 7 on the 0–100 scale. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (95/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (86/100), FEMA disaster exposure (78/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (74/100), institutional ownership (61/100), construction/permit lag (51/100). mortgage stress (24/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 1.6% over the trailing year, and 18% higher over three years, at 42/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

38,051 residents call 77642 home, typically aged 32. A median home runs $104,700 here, or 2.3 times local income. About 11% have a four-year degree. The tenure split is 52% owner-occupied to 48% rented. Households earn a median $41,677 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Roughly 31.7% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Vacancy runs 13.9%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. There are about 16,446 housing units across 77642. On demographic stress specifically, 77642 scores 36/100. Rent burden reaches 48% of tenant households.

Taken together, 77642 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.