ZIP 79021 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Composite property distress in 79021 (Hale County, Texas) lands at 22/100 — low on DLRadar's distress scoring. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (49/100), institutional ownership (6/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (6/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (76/100). Structural risk reads 49/100 against active distress of 0/100.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 0.9% over the trailing year (phase confidence 9/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

About 55 people live here, median age 42. Around 0% of renters are cost-burdened. The poverty rate is 3.6% — low. Vacancy runs 57.1%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Households earn a median $111,250 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. Owners hold 22% of homes, renters 78%. Around 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. There are about 30 housing units across 79021. On demographic stress specifically, 79021 scores 54/100.

Net-net, 79021 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, 79021's 22/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Hale County, Texas or any ZIP coast to coast. 79021 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

79021's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. Practically, 79021 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.