ZIP 78160 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Wilson County, Texas, ZIP 78160 scores 25 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. Latent structural risk is 54/100 while live distress already moving reads 2/100. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (75/100). Its standout signals are construction/permit lag (75/100), structural risk (54/100), institutional ownership (40/100). mortgage stress (7/100) stay muted.

The contraction-phase market in 78160 posted values that fell 1.2% over the year, 2.0% off the recent peak, at 21/100 phase confidence. A cooling market tends to open discount-to-value windows.

The tenure split is 84% owner-occupied to 16% rented. The vacancy rate is 12.0% — elevated. Rent burden reaches 32% of tenant households. On demographic stress specifically, 78160 scores 30/100. About 4,705 people live here, median age 42. Median household income is $62,188, below the U.S. median near $78,000. There are about 1,906 housing units across 78160. The poverty rate is 19.9% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. The typical home is worth about $243,300 (2.9× income, relatively affordable). Educational attainment sits at 16% bachelor's-or-above.

Net-net, 78160 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Parcel-level detail for 78160 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.

Whether 78160 runs hot or quiet, its 25/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 78160 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Wilson County, Texas or nationwide. Where the public record is thin for 78160, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

78160's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For a buyer, 78160 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.