ZIP 78161 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Wilson County, Texas · High Vacancy market
ZIP code 78161 in Wilson County, Texas carries a composite property-distress score of 25/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic public-record index. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (75/100), structural risk (54/100), institutional ownership (40/100). mortgage stress (7/100) stay muted. The latent-versus-live split is 54/100 structural and 2/100 already moving. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (75/100).
Prices here sit in a contraction phase: values fell 1.2% over the trailing year, 2.0% off the recent peak, at 21/100 phase confidence. Softening prices widen the spread between distressed and market value — what acquisition buyers watch for.
At $75,966, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. 48.3% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. 93% of housing is owner-occupied. Rent burden reaches 0% of tenant households. On demographic stress specifically, 78161 scores 34/100. About 18% have a four-year degree. The vacancy rate is 31.2% — elevated. There are about 214 housing units across 78161. 602 residents call 78161 home, typically aged 33. Home values center near $204,100.
Net-net, 78161 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
The 78161 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 25/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 78161 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Wilson County, Texas. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 78161 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.
78161's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. Practically, 78161 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 78161
Tax arrears, institutional buyers, insurance load, flood exposure, stalled construction, dislocated pricing and auction velocity — together with the 0 individual distressed properties come with owner, address, APN, an individual score and an exit read in the complete report.
Snapshot: 78161 by the numbers
The live 78161 panel — distress score, market phase, housing and bank pressure — as attached to every individual property.
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