ZIP 78229 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Bexar County, Texas, ZIP 78229 scores 37 of 100 for composite distress, a moderate level on DLRadar's public-record index. Latent structural risk is 83/100 while live distress already moving reads 6/100. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (89/100), FEMA disaster exposure (71/100)). The pressure is most legible in construction/permit lag (84/100), structural risk (83/100), institutional ownership (58/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) register low.

The contraction-phase market in 78229 posted values that fell 1.2% over the year, 2.0% off the recent peak, and 7% higher over three years, at 21/100 phase confidence. A cooling market tends to open discount-to-value windows.

Vacancy runs 14.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The typical home is worth about $228,900 (4.4× income). Owners hold 13% of homes, renters 87%. On demographic stress specifically, 78229 scores 41/100. Roughly 22.9% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Around 43% of renters are cost-burdened. The ZIP holds roughly 19,228 housing units. Households earn a median $46,718 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Population is roughly 35,195 with a median age of 30. Educational attainment sits at 31% bachelor's-or-above.

Net-net, 78229 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. While 78229 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 78229's 37/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Bexar County, Texas or any ZIP coast to coast. Sparse data for 78229 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

78229'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. In workflow terms, 78229 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.