ZIP 78417 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Nueces County, Texas's ZIP 78417 registers 34/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Leading the profile are structural risk (76/100), construction/permit lag (60/100), institutional ownership (58/100). mortgage stress (24/100) stay muted. Latent structural risk is 76/100 while live distress already moving reads 7/100. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (96/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (84/100), FEMA disaster exposure (75/100).

The peak-phase market in 78417 posted values that held roughly flat over the year, 4.1% off the recent peak, at 11/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

The poverty rate is 12.2%. Around 10% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Median household income is $53,941, below the U.S. median near $78,000. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 32/100. Rent burden reaches 50% of tenant households. Population is roughly 4,462 with a median age of 39. Owners hold 64% of homes, renters 36%. The vacancy rate is 9.8%. The typical home is worth about $155,200 (2.5× income, relatively affordable). There are about 1,692 housing units across 78417.

On balance 78417 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. 78417 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

No ZIP is too small to score: 78417 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 34/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 78417, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

78417's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. Treat 78417 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.