ZIP 78617 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 78617 (Travis County, Texas) lands at 31/100 — moderate on DLRadar's distress scoring. Its heaviest discrete signals: structural risk (69/100), construction/permit lag (67/100), institutional ownership (45/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (18/100) register low. Structural exposure scores 69 and live distress 5 on the 0–100 scale. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (94/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (73/100).

The contraction-phase market in 78617 posted values that held roughly flat over the year, 1.1% off the recent peak, and 40% higher over three years, at 5/100 phase confidence. Softening prices widen the spread between distressed and market value — what acquisition buyers watch for.

Median household income is $78,019, near the U.S. median near $78,000. A median home runs $281,700 here, or 3.2 times local income. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 33/100. Around 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Rent burden reaches 56% of tenant households. The vacancy rate is 5.4%. The tenure split is 81% owner-occupied to 19% rented. Population is roughly 28,932 with a median age of 36. 12.9% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. There are about 9,443 housing units across 78617.

On the whole, 78617 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. While 78617 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

No ZIP is too small to score: 78617 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 31/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 78617 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

The 31/100 figure for 78617 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. In workflow terms, 78617 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.