ZIP 79902 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

El Paso County, Texas's ZIP 79902 registers 26/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. The pressure is most legible in structural risk (58/100), construction/permit lag (57/100), institutional ownership (18/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (18/100) and mortgage stress (8/100). Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (94/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (81/100)). The latent-versus-live split is 58/100 structural and 2/100 already moving.

The market reads peak — home values rose 1.8% year on year, and 29% higher over three years (phase confidence 18/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Households earn a median $45,333 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. About 18,529 people live here, median age 40. Around 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Owners hold 41% of homes, renters 59%. The ZIP holds roughly 9,650 housing units. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 39/100. The poverty rate is 23.9% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. The vacancy rate is 11.2% — elevated. Around 44% of renters are cost-burdened. The typical home is worth about $238,500 (4.9× income).

Net-net, 79902 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. No parcel file is published for 79902 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

Big metro or rural, 79902 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 26/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in El Paso County, Texas and the nation. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 79902, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

Behind 79902's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. For an operator, 79902 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.