ZIP 78944 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Austin County, Texas · High Vacancy market
ZIP 78944's composite property-distress score is 26/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Austin County, Texas. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — FEMA disaster exposure (89/100). Its standout signals are construction/permit lag (72/100), structural risk (56/100), institutional ownership (53/100). mortgage stress (20/100) stay muted. Structural risk reads 56/100 against active distress of 6/100.
The recovery-phase market in 78944 posted values that rose 2.7% over the year (phase confidence 17/100). Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.
Owners hold 94% of homes, renters 6%. 4.0% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Population is roughly 672 with a median age of 58. The ZIP holds roughly 411 housing units. The typical home is worth about $384,100 (2.7× income, relatively affordable). On demographic stress specifically, 78944 scores 24/100. Around 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Households earn a median $140,875 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. The vacancy rate is 26.1% — elevated. Rent burden reaches 36% of tenant households.
Net-net, 78944 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. There is no property file for 78944 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable public records.
The number is not local guesswork: 78944's 26/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 78944 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.
The 26/100 figure for 78944 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 an operator, 78944 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
ZIP 78944 distress signals, scored
Delinquent tax, institutional holdings, insurance strain, flood/NFIP exposure, build-out lag, price dislocation and auction pace — along with the 0 individual distressed properties (owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read) are in the full DLRadar report.
The 78944 distress snapshot
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 78944, the same set carried on every parcel.
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