ZIP 78598 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Willacy County, Texas · High Vacancy market
ZIP 78598's composite property-distress score is 30/100 - DLRadar classes that as moderate for Willacy County, Texas. What sets it apart are the readings on institutional ownership (68/100), structural risk (67/100), construction/permit lag (39/100). By contrast, construction/permit lag (39/100) register low. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (89/100), FEMA disaster exposure (89/100), climate & FEMA risk (70/100). The split runs 67/100 structural to 0/100 active on the ground.
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 0.9% over the trailing year, at 9/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
Roughly 18.0% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Rent burden reaches 100% of tenant households. 157 residents call 78598 home, typically aged 67. The ZIP holds roughly 340 housing units. About 51% have a four-year degree. At $25,000, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. 91% of housing is owner-occupied. Vacancy runs 70.7%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. On demographic stress specifically, 78598 scores 45/100.
On the whole, 78598 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. No parcel file is published for 78598 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.
No ZIP is too small to score: 78598 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 30/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Sparse data for 78598 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.
78598'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. Treat 78598 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.
ZIP 78598 distress signals, scored
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
The 78598 distress snapshot
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 78598, the same set carried on every parcel.
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The full 78598 file lists each distressed parcel with owner, address, APN, per-property score, bank exposure and exit-velocity read, and carries it straight through funding and closing. Refreshed continuously.
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