ZIP 78602 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Scored on a fixed 0-100 scale, 78602 (Bastrop County, Texas) returns a low composite of 18/100. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (81/100). Latent structural risk is 38/100 while live distress already moving reads 1/100. Leading the profile are construction/permit lag (51/100), structural risk (38/100), institutional ownership (5/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (5/100) and mortgage stress (3/100).

The market reads contraction — home values held roughly flat year on year, 1.1% off the recent peak, and 1% higher over three years, at 5/100 phase confidence. Falling values surface more motivated sellers and below-market exits.

The typical home is worth about $332,600 (3.6× income, relatively affordable). The poverty rate is 11.9%. Educational attainment sits at 27% bachelor's-or-above. Around 27% of renters are cost-burdened. Median household income is $86,976, near the U.S. median near $78,000. The ZIP holds roughly 14,323 housing units. On demographic stress specifically, 78602 scores 29/100. 70% of housing is owner-occupied. 35,786 residents call 78602 home, typically aged 38. Vacancy runs 7.4%.

Taken together, 78602 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

The 78602 read uses the identical scoring model applied coast to coast, which means its 18/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 78602 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Bastrop County, Texas. 78602 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

Each component behind 78602 - foreclosure, mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, lender pullback, structural exposure - is graded on its own before the 18/100 roll-up. The point of the 78602 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.