ZIP 79742 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Ward County, Texas · Distress market
ZIP 79742's composite property-distress score is 6/100 - DLRadar classes that as minimal for Ward County, Texas. Structurally it carries 13/100, against 0/100 of stress already in motion. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (35/100), structural risk (13/100), institutional ownership (3/100). On the quiet end sit structural risk (13/100) and institutional ownership (3/100).
The market reads peak — home values rose 2.0% year on year (phase confidence 22/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
About 24% have a four-year degree. The ZIP holds roughly 289 housing units. Population is roughly 593 with a median age of 25. On demographic stress specifically, 79742 scores 21/100. The poverty rate is 9.9%. 83% of housing is owner-occupied. Rent burden reaches 41% of tenant households. Vacancy runs 11.6%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Households earn a median $117,515 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure.
Broadly, 79742 is a steadier market — the deals are the exceptions, not the rule. There is no property file for 79742 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.
Whether 79742 runs hot or quiet, its 6/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 79742 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Ward County, Texas or nationwide. Where the record is thin for 79742, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.
79742's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. In workflow terms, 79742 is a go/no-go - the score says whether to drill in, then DLRadar carries you to parcels, capital and closing.
Signal-by-signal read on 79742
Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties (owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read) are in the full DLRadar report.
Snapshot: 79742 by the numbers
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 79742, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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