ZIP 78374 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 78374 (San Patricio County, Texas) at a moderate 30/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (65/100), institutional ownership (62/100), construction/permit lag (32/100). construction/permit lag (32/100) and mortgage stress (25/100) stay muted. The latent-versus-live split is 65/100 structural and 8/100 already moving. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (83/100), climate & FEMA risk (82/100), FEMA disaster exposure (81/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 0.6% over the trailing year, 1.0% off the recent peak, and 13% higher over three years (phase confidence 27/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Households earn a median $81,580 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. The vacancy rate is 13.6% — elevated. Roughly 8.7% live below the poverty line. Around 39% of renters are cost-burdened. About 25% have a four-year degree. 20,152 residents call 78374 home, typically aged 36. A median home runs $233,800 here, or 2.8 times local income. The tenure split is 63% owner-occupied to 37% rented. On demographic stress specifically, 78374 scores 29/100. The ZIP holds roughly 8,490 housing units.

Taken together, 78374 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.