ZIP 78537 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 78537 (Hidalgo County, Texas) at a moderate 37/100 for overall property distress. The latent-versus-live split is 82/100 structural and 8/100 already moving. Its standout signals are structural risk (82/100), institutional ownership (69/100), construction/permit lag (61/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (25/100). Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (97/100), FEMA disaster exposure (89/100).

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.7% year on year, and 24% higher over three years, at 42/100 phase confidence. Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

51,346 residents call 78537 home, typically aged 26. The tenure split is 73% owner-occupied to 27% rented. There are about 16,457 housing units across 78537. Around 51% of renters are cost-burdened. A median home runs $81,900 here, or 2.1 times local income. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 37/100. The vacancy rate is 15.9% — elevated. Households earn a median $36,331 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Roughly 41.4% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Educational attainment sits at 10% bachelor's-or-above.

Net-net, 78537 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. No parcel file is published for 78537 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

The 78537 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 37/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 78537 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Hidalgo County, Texas. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 78537, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

78537's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. The point of the 78537 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.