ZIP 78852 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Maverick County, Texas's ZIP 78852 registers 24/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. On the structural side it scores 54/100, with 2/100 of stress already active. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (73/100), FEMA disaster exposure (71/100). Leading the profile are structural risk (54/100), institutional ownership (46/100), construction/permit lag (42/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (8/100) register low.

The market reads peak — home values rose 0.9% year on year, and 23% higher over three years (phase confidence 9/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

56,933 residents call 78852 home, typically aged 30. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 33/100. A median home runs $157,900 here, or 2.9 times local income. The ZIP holds roughly 19,993 housing units. The tenure split is 69% owner-occupied to 31% rented. About 16% have a four-year degree. Median household income is $52,295, below the U.S. median near $78,000. Rent burden reaches 38% of tenant households. Vacancy runs 9.1%. 22.8% of residents fall below the poverty threshold.

Taken together, 78852 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Parcel-level detail for 78852 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.

No ZIP is too small to score: 78852 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 24/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 78852 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

The 24/100 figure for 78852 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, 78852 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.