ZIP 85053 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

DLRadar grades ZIP 85053 (Maricopa County, Arizona) at a moderate 35/100 for overall property distress. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (88/100), FEMA disaster exposure (71/100). Structural risk reads 78/100 against active distress of 7/100. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (78/100), construction/permit lag (64/100), institutional ownership (58/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (23/100).

The market reads peak — home values held roughly flat year on year, and 3% higher over three years (phase confidence 11/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

At $66,870, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. Owners hold 61% of homes, renters 39%. Roughly 13.8% live below the poverty line. Educational attainment sits at 26% bachelor's-or-above. 29,719 residents call 85053 home, typically aged 37. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 36/100. There are about 12,009 housing units across 85053. Vacancy runs 3.5%. Around 42% of renters are cost-burdened. A median home runs $367,000 here, or 4.9 times local income.

Net-net, 85053 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. 85053 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

Big metro or rural, 85053 runs through one identical public-record model, so its 35/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Maricopa County, Arizona and the nation. Where the public record is thin for 85053, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

The 35/100 for 85053 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. For a buyer, 85053 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.