ZIP 79748 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 79748 (Howard County, Texas) at a minimal 7/100 for overall property distress. The split runs 14/100 structural to 0/100 active on the ground. The pressure is most legible in structural risk (14/100), institutional ownership (4/100). On the quiet end sit structural risk (14/100) and institutional ownership (4/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.0% over the trailing year (phase confidence 13/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Households earn a median $55,625 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The poverty rate is 48.1% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. About 14% have a four-year degree. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 40/100. There are about 61 housing units across 79748. 387 residents call 79748 home, typically aged 25. Around 0% of renters are cost-burdened. The vacancy rate is 11.0%. The typical home is worth about $390,900. Owners hold 48% of homes, renters 52%.

On the whole, 79748 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. Parcel-level detail for 79748 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.

The 79748 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 7/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 79748 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Howard County, Texas. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed on ingest; 79748 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

The 7/100 for 79748 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. For an operator, 79748 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.