ZIP 78872 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Zavala County, Texas · High Vacancy market
ZIP code 78872 in Zavala County, Texas carries a composite property-distress score of 20/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: flood (NFIP) exposure (84/100), FEMA disaster exposure (68/100). What sets it apart are the readings on institutional ownership (55/100), structural risk (44/100), mortgage stress (4/100). mortgage stress (4/100) stay muted. Structural risk reads 44/100 against active distress of 1/100.
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.0% over the trailing year, at 22/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
Population is roughly 1,166 with a median age of 28. The ZIP holds roughly 516 housing units. Home values center near $78,500, an affordability ratio of 2.3× — accessible. Around 83% of renters are cost-burdened. At $42,270, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Vacancy runs 18.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. About 12% have a four-year degree. The poverty rate is 17.4% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. The tenure split is 75% owner-occupied to 25% rented. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 37/100.
Net-net, 78872 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Parcel-level detail for 78872 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced.
Whether 78872 runs hot or quiet, its 20/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 78872 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Zavala County, Texas or nationwide. 78872 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
78872's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. The point of the 78872 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 78872
Tax arrears, institutional buyers, insurance load, flood exposure, stalled construction, dislocated pricing and auction velocity — together with the 0 individual distressed properties are broken out by owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read inside DLRadar.
ZIP 78872 Stress Report snapshot
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 78872, the same set carried on every parcel.
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