ZIP 78596 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Hidalgo County, Texas · High Vacancy market
On DLRadar's 0-100 public-record scale, ZIP 78596 in Hidalgo County, Texas comes in at 37, a moderate composite-distress reading. Leading the profile are structural risk (82/100), institutional ownership (69/100), construction/permit lag (61/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (25/100). Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (97/100), FEMA disaster exposure (89/100)). On the structural side it scores 82/100, with 8/100 of stress already active.
The expansion-phase market in 78596 posted values that rose 5.7% over the year, and 16% higher over three years, at 42/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.
At $53,797, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Around 47% of renters are cost-burdened. The poverty rate is 24.7% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Educational attainment sits at 21% bachelor's-or-above. About 38,942 people live here, median age 32. There are about 16,329 housing units across 78596. A median home runs $104,000 here, or 1.7 times local income. Vacancy runs 23.3%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. On demographic stress specifically, 78596 scores 32/100. The tenure split is 64% owner-occupied to 36% rented.
Net-net, 78596 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. There is no property file for 78596 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.
No ZIP is too small to score: 78596 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; 78596 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.
78596'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. Practically, 78596 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 78596
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties are listed in full, with owner, address, APN, per-parcel score and exit-velocity read.
The 78596 distress snapshot
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 78596, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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