ZIP 79761 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 79761 in Ector County, Texas carries a composite property-distress score of 19/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. The split runs 43/100 structural to 2/100 active on the ground. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — flood (NFIP) exposure (86/100), climate & FEMA risk (83/100). The pressure is most legible in structural risk (43/100), institutional ownership (19/100), mortgage stress (8/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (8/100) and construction/permit lag (5/100).

The contraction-phase market in 79761 posted values that fell 0.7% over the year, and 13% higher over three years, at 47/100 phase confidence. Softening prices widen the spread between distressed and market value — what acquisition buyers watch for.

There are about 13,549 housing units across 79761. 57% of housing is owner-occupied. 13.0% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Around 38% of renters are cost-burdened. Home values center near $166,000, an affordability ratio of 2.3× — accessible. About 14% have a four-year degree. The vacancy rate is 8.6%. Households earn a median $69,279 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. About 30,243 people live here, median age 30. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 29/100.

Taken together, 79761 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. 79761 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

The 79761 read uses the identical scoring model applied coast to coast, which means its 19/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 79761 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Ector County, Texas. Every figure is auditable to a public dataset and refreshed as records update; 79761 shows blanks, not estimates, wherever the record is sparse.

79761's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. Treat 79761 as a screen: confirm the composite, open the distressed parcels beneath it, and run the deal to funding and close on DLRadar.