ZIP 78949 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Fayette County, Texas · High Vacancy market
ZIP code 78949 in Fayette County, Texas carries a composite property-distress score of 28/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. The sharpest non-environmental signals are construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (61/100), institutional ownership (45/100). mortgage stress (21/100) stay muted. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: FEMA disaster exposure (74/100). On the structural side it scores 61/100, with 6/100 of stress already active.
The market reads peak — home values rose 2.0% year on year, at 22/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
Vacancy runs 36.0%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The poverty rate is 2.4% — low. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 42/100. Around 0% of renters are cost-burdened. 628 residents call 78949 home, typically aged 50. Around 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The ZIP holds roughly 424 housing units. The typical home is worth about $285,000. At $88,491, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. 94% of housing is owner-occupied.
Net-net, 78949 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 78949's 28/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Fayette County, Texas or any ZIP coast to coast. Where the record is thin for 78949, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.
78949's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For a buyer, 78949 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.
What is driving ZIP 78949’s distress
Delinquent tax, institutional holdings, insurance strain, flood/NFIP exposure, build-out lag, price dislocation and auction pace — along with the 0 individual distressed properties are listed in full, with owner, address, APN, per-parcel score and exit-velocity read.
Snapshot: 78949 by the numbers
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 78949, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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The complete 78949 distress and acquisition report
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