ZIP 78572 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 78572's composite property-distress score is 37/100 - DLRadar classes that as moderate for Hidalgo County, Texas. The pressure is most legible in structural risk (81/100), institutional ownership (66/100), construction/permit lag (63/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (25/100) register low. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (97/100), FEMA disaster exposure (82/100)). Structural exposure scores 81 and live distress 8 on the 0–100 scale.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.7% over the trailing year, and 24% higher over three years, at 42/100 phase confidence. Rising prices can mask pockets of distress, where per-parcel scoring earns its keep.

Households earn a median $54,029 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Around 36% of renters are cost-burdened. Around 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The vacancy rate is 18.7% — elevated. Roughly 20.4% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Home values center near $147,300, an affordability ratio of 2.3× — accessible. On demographic stress specifically, 78572 scores 30/100. The tenure split is 72% owner-occupied to 28% rented. About 78,197 people live here, median age 38. There are about 33,000 housing units across 78572.

On the whole, 78572 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Parcel-level detail for 78572 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 78572's 37/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Hidalgo County, Texas or any ZIP coast to coast. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 78572, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

78572's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. The point of the 78572 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.