ZIP 78959 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Gonzales County, Texas · High Vacancy market
Gonzales County, Texas's ZIP 78959 registers 29/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. On the structural side it scores 62/100, with 0/100 of stress already active. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (77/100). The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (62/100), institutional ownership (61/100), construction/permit lag (56/100).
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 1.9% over the trailing year (phase confidence 21/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
On demographic stress specifically, 78959 scores 30/100. Owners hold 74% of homes, renters 26%. Around 15% of renters are cost-burdened. The poverty rate is 13.1%. Vacancy runs 19.8%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. There are about 705 housing units across 78959. Population is roughly 1,401 with a median age of 51. Around 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Median household income is $51,029, below the U.S. median near $78,000.
On the whole, 78959 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
Whether 78959 runs hot or quiet, its 29/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 78959 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Gonzales County, Texas or nationwide. 78959 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
Behind 78959's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. For an operator, 78959 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 78959
Unpaid tax, corporate ownership share, insurance cost pressure, NFIP flood risk, construction slowdown, price gaps and auction turnover — plus the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
Snapshot: 78959 by the numbers
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