ZIP 78159 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Gonzales County, Texas · High Vacancy market
ZIP code 78159 in Gonzales County, Texas carries a composite property-distress score of 25/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. Structural risk reads 52/100 against active distress of 8/100. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (82/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (60/100). The sharpest non-environmental signals are institutional ownership (66/100), structural risk (52/100), mortgage stress (27/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (27/100) register low.
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.0% over the trailing year (phase confidence 22/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
Vacancy runs 25.9%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Home values center near $132,600, an affordability ratio of 2.2× — accessible. 32.8% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Owners hold 69% of homes, renters 31%. Median household income is $33,542, below the U.S. median near $78,000. Around 12% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. About 604 people live here, median age 37. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 36/100. There are about 303 housing units across 78159. Around 53% of renters are cost-burdened.
On the whole, 78159 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. No parcel file is published for 78159 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.
Big metro or rural, 78159 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 25/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Gonzales County, Texas and the nation. Where the record is thin for 78159, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.
Each component behind 78159 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 25/100 roll-up. For a buyer, 78159 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.
Signal-by-signal read on 78159
Tax arrears, institutional buyers, insurance load, flood exposure, stalled construction, dislocated pricing and auction velocity — together with the 0 individual distressed properties (owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read) are in the full DLRadar report.
The 78159 distress snapshot
A live read on 78159: distress, market phase, housing and bank pressure — identical to the report behind every parcel.
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