ZIP 78552 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 78552 (Cameron County, Texas) lands at 35/100 — moderate on DLRadar's public-record scoring. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (77/100), institutional ownership (70/100), construction/permit lag (42/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (25/100) register low. Latent structural risk is 77/100 while live distress already moving reads 8/100. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (99/100), climate & FEMA risk (96/100), FEMA disaster exposure (89/100).

Prices here sit in a neutral phase: values rose 4.3% over the trailing year, and 16% higher over three years, at 54/100 phase confidence. Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

Roughly 20.6% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Population is roughly 41,277 with a median age of 33. Educational attainment sits at 22% bachelor's-or-above. A median home runs $169,300 here, or 2.3 times local income. At $67,183, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Owners hold 75% of homes, renters 25%. Around 35% of renters are cost-burdened. There are about 15,840 housing units across 78552. On demographic stress specifically, 78552 scores 29/100. The vacancy rate is 14.9% — elevated.

On the whole, 78552 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Parcel-level detail for 78552 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.

The number is not local guesswork: 78552's 35/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 78552 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

Behind 78552's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. For an operator, 78552 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.