ZIP 78393 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Composite property distress in 78393 (Refugio County, Texas) lands at 20/100 — low on DLRadar's public-record scoring. Structural exposure scores 45 and live distress 6 on the 0–100 scale. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (78/100). The sharpest non-environmental signals are construction/permit lag (75/100), structural risk (45/100), institutional ownership (42/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (20/100) register low.

The market reads neutral — home values rose 4.3% year on year, at 24/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

Vacancy runs 26.4%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The poverty rate is 9.3%. The typical home is worth about $155,100 (1.6× income, relatively affordable). Around 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 89% of housing is owner-occupied. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 25/100. About 1,932 people live here, median age 42. Rent burden reaches 32% of tenant households. There are about 875 housing units across 78393. At $60,642, median income runs below typical U.S. levels.

Net-net, 78393 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.