ZIP 78572 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 78572 (Hidalgo County, Texas) at a moderate 36/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (79/100), institutional ownership (65/100), construction/permit lag (54/100). mortgage stress (25/100) stay muted. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (97/100), FEMA disaster exposure (81/100). The latent-versus-live split is 79/100 structural and 8/100 already moving.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.6% over the trailing year, 2.8% off the recent peak, and 24% higher over three years (phase confidence 49/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Households earn a median $54,029 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Around 36% of renters are cost-burdened. About 25% have a four-year degree. The vacancy rate is 18.7% — elevated. Roughly 20.4% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. A median home runs $147,300 here, or 2.3 times local income. On demographic stress specifically, 78572 scores 30/100. The tenure split is 72% owner-occupied to 28% rented. 78,197 residents call 78572 home, typically aged 38. The ZIP holds roughly 33,000 housing units.

Taken together, 78572 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.