ZIP 79602 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 79602 (Taylor County, Texas) at a minimal 14/100 for overall property distress. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (68/100). Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (32/100), institutional ownership (14/100), mortgage stress (7/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (14/100) and mortgage stress (7/100) register low. Structural risk reads 32/100 against active distress of 2/100.

The market reads expansion — home values rose 5.1% year on year, and 13% higher over three years, at 37/100 phase confidence. Appreciation rarely lifts every parcel — the laggards are the opportunity.

The typical home is worth about $248,100 (2.8× income, relatively affordable). There are about 11,341 housing units across 79602. Vacancy runs 13.1%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The poverty rate is 10.6%. 77% of housing is owner-occupied. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 26/100. About 26,588 people live here, median age 38. Around 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Rent burden reaches 31% of tenant households. At $84,845, median income runs near typical U.S. levels.

Net-net, 79602 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.