ZIP 78671 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Gillespie County, Texas, ZIP 78671 scores 30 of 100 for composite distress, a moderate level on DLRadar's distress index. The pressure is most legible in construction/permit lag (71/100), structural risk (67/100), institutional ownership (61/100). Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (87/100), FEMA disaster exposure (77/100). The latent-versus-live split is 67/100 structural and 0/100 already moving.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 0.9% over the trailing year (phase confidence 9/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

399 residents call 78671 home, typically aged 60. 51% of housing is owner-occupied. Rent burden reaches 100% of tenant households. The vacancy rate is 4.2%. Educational attainment sits at 33% bachelor's-or-above. There are about 265 housing units across 78671. The poverty rate is 19.9% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Median household income is $34,522, below the U.S. median near $78,000. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 61/100.

Net-net, 78671 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. There is no property file for 78671 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.

No ZIP is too small to score: 78671 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 78671 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

The 30/100 for 78671 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. For an operator, 78671 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.