ZIP 78550 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Cameron County, Texas · High Vacancy market
Scored on a fixed 0-100 scale, 78550 (Cameron County, Texas) returns a moderate composite of 34/100. Its standout signals are structural risk (76/100), institutional ownership (67/100), construction/permit lag (39/100). On the quiet end sit construction/permit lag (39/100) and mortgage stress (25/100). Structural exposure scores 76 and live distress 8 on the 0–100 scale. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (98/100), climate & FEMA risk (96/100), FEMA disaster exposure (91/100).
Prices here sit in a neutral phase: values rose 4.3% over the trailing year, and 19% higher over three years (phase confidence 54/100). Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.
About 22% have a four-year degree. The poverty rate is 24.3% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Rent burden reaches 40% of tenant households. The vacancy rate is 12.1% — elevated. The ZIP holds roughly 22,468 housing units. On demographic stress specifically, 78550 scores 32/100. 54,169 residents call 78550 home, typically aged 34. Owners hold 53% of homes, renters 47%. Households earn a median $51,524 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The typical home is worth about $131,100 (2.3× income, relatively affordable).
Taken together, 78550 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Parcel-level detail for 78550 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced.
Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 78550's 34/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Cameron County, Texas or any ZIP coast to coast. 78550 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
78550's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For an operator, 78550 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
Signal-by-signal read on 78550
Tax-delinquent parcels, institutional ownership, insurance strain, flood risk, construction lag, price dislocation and auction speed — plus the 0 individual distressed properties carry owner, address, APN, a parcel-level score and an exit read in the full DLRadar file.
ZIP 78550 Stress Report snapshot
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 78550, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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