ZIP 78599 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Hidalgo County, Texas's ZIP 78599 registers 37/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. The split runs 82/100 structural to 8/100 active on the ground. The pressure is most legible in structural risk (82/100), institutional ownership (69/100), construction/permit lag (61/100). mortgage stress (25/100) stay muted. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (97/100), FEMA disaster exposure (89/100).

The expansion-phase market in 78599 posted values that rose 5.7% over the year, and 18% higher over three years (phase confidence 42/100). Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

35,400 residents call 78599 home, typically aged 27. The vacancy rate is 7.2%. 23.6% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Households earn a median $55,939 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Home values center near $125,400, an affordability ratio of 2.0× — accessible. The ZIP holds roughly 10,225 housing units. The tenure split is 72% owner-occupied to 28% rented. Around 39% of renters are cost-burdened. On demographic stress specifically, 78599 scores 31/100. About 16% have a four-year degree.

Taken together, 78599 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. No parcel file is published for 78599 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 78599's 37/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Hidalgo County, Texas or any ZIP coast to coast. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 78599 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

The 37/100 figure for 78599 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. For a buyer, 78599 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.