ZIP 78557 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Hidalgo County, Texas · High Poverty market
On DLRadar's 0-100 public-record scale, ZIP 78557 in Hidalgo County, Texas comes in at 37, a moderate composite-distress reading. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (97/100), FEMA disaster exposure (89/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (82/100), institutional ownership (69/100), construction/permit lag (61/100). mortgage stress (25/100) stay muted. Structural risk reads 82/100 against active distress of 8/100.
Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.7% over the trailing year, and 1% lower over three years (phase confidence 42/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.
14,250 residents call 78557 home, typically aged 32. A median home runs $163,600 here, or 2.9 times local income. There are about 4,195 housing units across 78557. The tenure split is 79% owner-occupied to 21% rented. Roughly 24.6% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Vacancy runs 6.2%. Around 52% of renters are cost-burdened. About 24% have a four-year degree. Median household income is $53,667, below the U.S. median near $78,000. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 34/100.
Net-net, 78557 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. While 78557 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.
No ZIP is too small to score: 78557 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 37/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 78557 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.
Each component behind 78557 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 37/100 roll-up. Treat 78557 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.
Signal-by-signal read on 78557
Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties are listed in full, with owner, address, APN, per-parcel score and exit-velocity read.
78557 at a glance
A live read on 78557: distress, market phase, housing and bank pressure — identical to the report behind every parcel.
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