ZIP 85048 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 85048's composite property-distress score is 35/100 - DLRadar classes that as moderate for Maricopa County, Arizona. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (88/100), FEMA disaster exposure (71/100)). On the structural side it scores 78/100, with 7/100 of stress already active. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (78/100), construction/permit lag (64/100), institutional ownership (58/100). mortgage stress (23/100) stay muted.

The market reads peak — home values held roughly flat year on year, and 3% higher over three years (phase confidence 11/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Educational attainment sits at 62% bachelor's-or-above. 4.1% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Around 36% of renters are cost-burdened. The vacancy rate is 6.6%. There are about 14,542 housing units across 85048. On demographic stress specifically, 85048 scores 27/100. About 34,113 people live here, median age 43. 74% of housing is owner-occupied. Households earn a median $123,198 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. A median home runs $592,100 here, or 4.4 times local income.

Net-net, 85048 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. While 85048 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

The number is not local guesswork: 85048's 35/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 85048 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

85048's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For a buyer, 85048 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.