ZIP 85256 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Maricopa County, Arizona's ZIP 85256 registers 36/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (88/100), FEMA disaster exposure (79/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (79/100), institutional ownership (62/100), construction/permit lag (62/100). mortgage stress (23/100) stay muted. Structural risk reads 79/100 against active distress of 7/100.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 1.2% over the trailing year, at 16/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

A median home runs $190,500 here, or 2.6 times local income. The tenure split is 85% owner-occupied to 15% rented. 3,768 residents call 85256 home, typically aged 30. Vacancy runs 10.6%. On demographic stress specifically, 85256 scores 32/100. There are about 1,133 housing units across 85256. Roughly 30.4% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. About 9% have a four-year degree. Households earn a median $51,469 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. Rent burden reaches 29% of tenant households.

Taken together, 85256 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.