ZIP 78537 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Composite property distress in 78537 (Hidalgo County, Texas) lands at 36/100 — moderate on DLRadar's public-record scoring. Structural exposure scores 79 and live distress 8 on the 0–100 scale. The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (79/100), institutional ownership (65/100), construction/permit lag (54/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (25/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (97/100), FEMA disaster exposure (81/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.6% year on year, 2.8% off the recent peak, and 24% higher over three years, at 49/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

About 51,346 people live here, median age 26. 73% of housing is owner-occupied. There are about 16,457 housing units across 78537. Rent burden reaches 51% of tenant households. The typical home is worth about $81,900 (2.1× income, relatively affordable). The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 37/100. Vacancy runs 15.9%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. At $36,331, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The poverty rate is 41.4% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Around 10% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Net-net, 78537 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.