ZIP 78355 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Scored purely from public records, 78355 (Brooks County, Texas) returns a low composite of 21/100. Its heaviest discrete signals: construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (48/100), institutional ownership (20/100). institutional ownership (20/100) and mortgage stress (10/100) stay muted. The split runs 48/100 structural to 3/100 active on the ground.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 0.9% over the trailing year, at 9/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

The typical home is worth about $82,400 (2.6× income, relatively affordable). The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 35/100. Vacancy runs 23.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Educational attainment sits at 12% bachelor's-or-above. 6,843 residents call 78355 home, typically aged 38. Around 33% of renters are cost-burdened. The tenure split is 55% owner-occupied to 45% rented. Roughly 30.7% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. The ZIP holds roughly 3,744 housing units. At $32,636, median income runs below typical U.S. levels.

Taken together, 78355 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. While 78355 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

The 78355 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 21/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 78355 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Brooks County, Texas. 78355 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

78355's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For an operator, 78355 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.