ZIP 78343 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Nueces County, Texas, ZIP 78343 scores 34 of 100 for composite distress, a moderate level on DLRadar's distress index. The pressure is most legible in structural risk (75/100), construction/permit lag (60/100), institutional ownership (58/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (24/100) register low. Latent structural risk is 75/100 while live distress already moving reads 7/100. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (96/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (84/100), FEMA disaster exposure (74/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values held roughly flat over the trailing year, 4.1% off the recent peak, at 11/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Median household income is $62,516, below the U.S. median near $78,000. About 23% have a four-year degree. 17.0% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. A median home runs $112,200 here, or 1.7 times local income. On demographic stress specifically, 78343 scores 26/100. 4,565 residents call 78343 home, typically aged 42. Rent burden reaches 40% of tenant households. Vacancy runs 19.8%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Owners hold 87% of homes, renters 13%. There are about 1,917 housing units across 78343.

On the whole, 78343 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. There is no property file for 78343 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.

Whether 78343 runs hot or quiet, its 34/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 78343 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Nueces County, Texas or nationwide. 78343 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

The 34/100 figure for 78343 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. Practically, 78343 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.