ZIP 78401 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Nueces County, Texas · High Vacancy market
Scored purely from public records, 78401 (Nueces County, Texas) returns a moderate composite of 35/100. Latent structural risk is 76/100 while live distress already moving reads 7/100. The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (76/100), institutional ownership (61/100), construction/permit lag (59/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (24/100). Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (96/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (85/100), FEMA disaster exposure (78/100).
The peak-phase market in 78401 posted values that held roughly flat over the year, 4.1% off the recent peak, at 11/100 phase confidence. Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
The tenure split is 13% owner-occupied to 87% rented. A median home runs $77,500 here, or 2.0 times local income. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 38/100. There are about 2,041 housing units across 78401. About 4,668 people live here, median age 48. The poverty rate is 32.2% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Vacancy runs 28.9%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Around 33% of renters are cost-burdened. Households earn a median $37,796 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Educational attainment sits at 15% bachelor's-or-above.
Net-net, 78401 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Parcel-level detail for 78401 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.
No ZIP is too small to score: 78401 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 35/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. 78401 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
78401's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. In workflow terms, 78401 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.
What is driving ZIP 78401’s distress
Unpaid tax, corporate ownership share, insurance cost pressure, NFIP flood risk, construction slowdown, price gaps and auction turnover — plus the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
The 78401 distress snapshot
A live read on 78401: distress, market phase, housing and bank pressure — identical to the report behind every parcel.
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