ZIP 85251 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Maricopa County, Arizona · High Vacancy market
DLRadar grades ZIP 85251 (Maricopa County, Arizona) at a moderate 35/100 for overall property distress. Leading the profile are structural risk (78/100), construction/permit lag (64/100), institutional ownership (58/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (23/100) register low. The latent-versus-live split is 78/100 structural and 7/100 already moving. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (88/100), FEMA disaster exposure (71/100).
The market reads peak — home values held roughly flat year on year, and 12% higher over three years (phase confidence 11/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.
Households earn a median $89,151 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. Educational attainment sits at 60% bachelor's-or-above. 39,976 residents call 85251 home, typically aged 38. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 34/100. Around 33% of renters are cost-burdened. The tenure split is 49% owner-occupied to 51% rented. The poverty rate is 9.0%. There are about 26,458 housing units across 85251. The vacancy rate is 17.8% — elevated. The typical home is worth about $554,400 (5.6× income).
Taken together, 85251 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. 85251 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.
The number is not local guesswork: 85251's 35/100 comes from the same nationwide foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender model, making it directly comparable anywhere. 85251 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.
85251's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. The point of the 85251 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.
ZIP 85251 distress signals, scored
Tax arrears, institutional buyers, insurance load, flood exposure, stalled construction, dislocated pricing and auction velocity — together with the 0 individual distressed properties (owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read) are in the full DLRadar report.
The 85251 distress snapshot
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 85251, the same set carried on every parcel.
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