ZIP 79938 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
El Paso County, Texas · Distress market
In El Paso County, Texas, ZIP 79938 scores 16 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's distress index. Leading the profile are construction/permit lag (52/100), structural risk (37/100), institutional ownership (11/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (11/100) and mortgage stress (5/100). Structurally it carries 37/100, against 2/100 of stress already in motion.
Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 1.8% over the trailing year, and 10% higher over three years, at 18/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
The ZIP holds roughly 30,376 housing units. Educational attainment sits at 28% bachelor's-or-above. The typical home is worth about $214,800 (2.6× income, relatively affordable). Households earn a median $75,801 — near the roughly $78,000 national figure. Vacancy runs 4.0%. 11.2% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. About 97,851 people live here, median age 30. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 28/100. The tenure split is 81% owner-occupied to 19% rented. Around 42% of renters are cost-burdened.
On balance 79938 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. While 79938 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.
Big metro or rural, 79938 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 16/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in El Paso County, Texas and the nation. 79938 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
The 16/100 figure for 79938 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. For an operator, 79938 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.
Signal-by-signal read on 79938
Tax-delinquent parcels, institutional ownership, insurance strain, flood risk, construction lag, price dislocation and auction speed — plus the 0 individual distressed properties — each with owner, address, APN, its own distress score and an exit read — are in the full report.
ZIP 79938 Stress Report snapshot
A live read on 79938: distress, market phase, housing and bank pressure — identical to the report behind every parcel.
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The full 79938 file lists each distressed parcel with owner, address, APN, per-property score, bank exposure and exit-velocity read, and carries it straight through to owner and lender records. Refreshed continuously.
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