ZIP 78543 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Scored purely from public records, 78543 (Hidalgo County, Texas) returns a moderate composite of 37/100. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (82/100), institutional ownership (69/100), construction/permit lag (61/100). mortgage stress (25/100) stay muted. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (97/100), FEMA disaster exposure (89/100)). Structural risk reads 82/100 against active distress of 8/100.

The expansion-phase market in 78543 posted values that rose 5.7% over the year, at 42/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

On demographic stress specifically, 78543 scores 29/100. The tenure split is 79% owner-occupied to 21% rented. The vacancy rate is 8.2%. There are about 3,129 housing units across 78543. 20.1% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Educational attainment sits at 9% bachelor's-or-above. At $47,657, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. About 8,608 people live here, median age 32. Around 39% of renters are cost-burdened. The typical home is worth about $87,800 (1.8× income, relatively affordable).

Net-net, 78543 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Parcel-level detail for 78543 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 78543's 37/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Hidalgo County, Texas or any ZIP coast to coast. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 78543 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

78543'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 78543 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.