ZIP 78953 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Bastrop County, Texas's ZIP 78953 registers 21/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Structural exposure scores 46 and live distress 2 on the 0–100 scale. The sharpest non-environmental signals are construction/permit lag (65/100), structural risk (46/100), institutional ownership (14/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (14/100) and mortgage stress (7/100). It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (80/100).

The market reads contraction — home values held roughly flat year on year, 2.0% off the recent peak, at 5/100 phase confidence. Softening prices widen the spread between distressed and market value — what acquisition buyers watch for.

About 958 people live here, median age 53. The tenure split is 80% owner-occupied to 20% rented. Home values center near $325,400, an affordability ratio of 3.0× — accessible. 5.1% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Median household income is $88,852, above the U.S. median near $78,000. The vacancy rate is 20.0% — elevated. Rent burden reaches 0% of tenant households. There are about 640 housing units across 78953. Educational attainment sits at 22% bachelor's-or-above. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 22/100.

On the whole, 78953 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. While 78953 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

Whether 78953 runs hot or quiet, its 21/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 78953 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Bastrop County, Texas or nationwide. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 78953 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

The 21/100 figure for 78953 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. In workflow terms, 78953 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.