ZIP 79061 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Wheeler County, Texas's ZIP 79061 registers 16/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Structurally it carries 38/100, against 2/100 of stress already in motion. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (100/100), structural risk (38/100), mortgage stress (7/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (7/100) and institutional ownership (5/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 1.9% year on year (phase confidence 20/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Households earn a median $96,250 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. Educational attainment sits at 4% bachelor's-or-above. The poverty rate is 3.5% — low. Rent burden reaches 0% of tenant households. The ZIP holds roughly 147 housing units. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 18/100. About 282 people live here, median age 55. Vacancy runs 30.1%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Home values center near $95,800, an affordability ratio of 1.0× — accessible. Owners hold 90% of homes, renters 10%.

On the whole, 79061 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. While 79061 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

Whether 79061 runs hot or quiet, its 16/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 79061 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Wheeler County, Texas or nationwide. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 79061 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

79061's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. Treat 79061 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.