ZIP 80126 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Scored purely from public records, 80126 (Douglas County, Colorado) returns a low composite of 24/100. Its heaviest discrete signals: construction/permit lag (90/100), structural risk (53/100), institutional ownership (6/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (6/100) and mortgage stress (3/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (90/100). The split runs 53/100 structural to 1/100 active on the ground.

Prices here sit in a contraction phase: values fell 1.0% over the trailing year, 1.2% off the recent peak, and 4% higher over three years, at 17/100 phase confidence. Softening prices widen the spread between distressed and market value — what acquisition buyers watch for.

DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 26/100. There are about 16,461 housing units across 80126. Population is roughly 44,482 with a median age of 42. Rent burden reaches 44% of tenant households. Households earn a median $166,501 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. Vacancy runs 2.4%. About 70% have a four-year degree. The typical home is worth about $782,000 (4.3× income). The poverty rate is 2.0% — low. 84% of housing is owner-occupied.

Net-net, 80126 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.

Big metro or rural, 80126 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 24/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Douglas County, Colorado and the nation. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 80126, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

The 24/100 figure for 80126 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. The point of the 80126 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.