ZIP 85251 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Maricopa County, Arizona's ZIP 85251 registers 36/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (79/100), institutional ownership (62/100), construction/permit lag (62/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (23/100) register low. On the structural side it scores 79/100, with 7/100 of stress already active. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (88/100), FEMA disaster exposure (79/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 1.2% year on year, and 12% higher over three years (phase confidence 16/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

At $89,151, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. Around 60% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. About 39,976 people live here, median age 38. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 34/100. Around 33% of renters are cost-burdened. 49% of housing is owner-occupied. The poverty rate is 9.0%. The ZIP holds roughly 26,458 housing units. The vacancy rate is 17.8% — elevated. The typical home is worth about $554,400 (5.6× income).

Net-net, 85251 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.