ZIP 78948 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Lee County, Texas's ZIP 78948 registers 15/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. On the structural side it scores 31/100, with 5/100 of stress already active. What sets it apart are the readings on institutional ownership (48/100), structural risk (31/100), mortgage stress (18/100). structural risk (31/100) and mortgage stress (18/100) stay muted. Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (89/100)).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.0% over the trailing year (phase confidence 22/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Population is roughly 599 with a median age of 48. There are about 352 housing units across 78948. The vacancy rate is 28.8% — elevated. Households earn a median $34,159 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The typical home is worth about $316,100. 3.3% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. The tenure split is 72% owner-occupied to 28% rented. Rent burden reaches 0% of tenant households. Educational attainment sits at 8% bachelor's-or-above. On demographic stress specifically, 78948 scores 23/100.

Net-net, 78948 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. While 78948 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

The 78948 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 15/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 78948 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Lee County, Texas. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 78948 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

The 15/100 figure for 78948 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. Treat 78948 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.