ZIP 78226 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

On DLRadar's 0-100 public-record scale, ZIP 78226 in Bexar County, Texas comes in at 37, a moderate composite-distress reading. Leading the profile are construction/permit lag (84/100), structural risk (83/100), institutional ownership (58/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (20/100). Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (89/100), FEMA disaster exposure (71/100)). The latent-versus-live split is 83/100 structural and 6/100 already moving.

The contraction-phase market in 78226 posted values that fell 1.2% over the 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.

Households earn a median $32,340 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Owners hold 38% of homes, renters 62%. Roughly 32.5% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Around 8% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 45/100. Population is roughly 6,907 with a median age of 31. Rent burden reaches 58% of tenant households. A median home runs $107,100 here, or 3.4 times local income. Vacancy runs 25.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. There are about 3,003 housing units across 78226.

On the whole, 78226 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. No parcel file is published for 78226 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 78226's 37/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Bexar County, Texas or any ZIP coast to coast. 78226 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

Behind 78226's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. For a buyer, 78226 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.