ZIP 78577 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Hidalgo County, Texas's ZIP 78577 registers 37/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. The split runs 82/100 structural to 8/100 active on the ground. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (97/100), FEMA disaster exposure (89/100). Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (82/100), institutional ownership (69/100), construction/permit lag (61/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (25/100) register low.

Prices here sit in a expansion phase: values rose 5.7% over the trailing year, and 23% higher over three years (phase confidence 42/100). Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

A median home runs $122,100 here, or 2.2 times local income. 29.9% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The tenure split is 59% owner-occupied to 41% rented. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 34/100. The vacancy rate is 12.4% — elevated. About 18% have a four-year degree. 79,903 residents call 78577 home, typically aged 30. Rent burden reaches 37% of tenant households. The ZIP holds roughly 27,194 housing units. At $49,768, median income runs below typical U.S. levels.

Taken together, 78577 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. While 78577 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

Big metro or rural, 78577 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 37/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Hidalgo County, Texas and the nation. Where the public record is thin for 78577, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

78577's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. Treat 78577 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.