ZIP 80018 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 80018 in Arapahoe County, Colorado carries a composite property-distress score of 27/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (85/100), structural risk (62/100), institutional ownership (15/100). institutional ownership (15/100) and mortgage stress (6/100) stay muted. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (94/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (63/100). On the structural side it scores 62/100, with 2/100 of stress already active.

Prices here sit in a contraction phase: values fell 1.0% over the trailing year, 1.2% off the recent peak, and 9% higher over three years, at 17/100 phase confidence. Softening prices widen the spread between distressed and market value — what acquisition buyers watch for.

Median household income is $127,390, above the U.S. median near $78,000. Roughly 5.1% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. On demographic stress specifically, 80018 scores 28/100. Educational attainment sits at 40% bachelor's-or-above. Around 34% of renters are cost-burdened. Population is roughly 17,129 with a median age of 35. The vacancy rate is 4.9%. The tenure split is 89% owner-occupied to 11% rented. Home values center near $588,200, an affordability ratio of 4.4×. The ZIP holds roughly 6,546 housing units.

Net-net, 80018 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.

No ZIP is too small to score: 80018 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 27/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Sparse data for 80018 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.

Behind 80018'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 a buyer, 80018 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.