ZIP 78501 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Hidalgo County, Texas's ZIP 78501 registers 36/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (97/100), FEMA disaster exposure (81/100). On the structural side it scores 79/100, with 8/100 of stress already active. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (79/100), institutional ownership (65/100), construction/permit lag (54/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (25/100) register low.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.6% year on year, 2.8% off the recent peak, and 18% higher over three years (phase confidence 49/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

The poverty rate is 25.3% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Around 46% of renters are cost-burdened. At $49,451, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The vacancy rate is 13.2% — elevated. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 35/100. About 59,095 people live here, median age 37. Around 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The typical home is worth about $161,000 (3.0× income, relatively affordable). The ZIP holds roughly 25,121 housing units. 50% of housing is owner-occupied.

Net-net, 78501 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.