ZIP 85268 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 85268 (Maricopa County, Arizona) at a moderate 36/100 for overall property distress. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (79/100), institutional ownership (62/100), construction/permit lag (62/100). mortgage stress (23/100) stay muted. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (88/100), FEMA disaster exposure (79/100). The latent-versus-live split is 79/100 structural and 7/100 already moving.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 1.2% over the trailing year, and 7% higher over three years (phase confidence 16/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

On demographic stress specifically, 85268 scores 31/100. Roughly 6.5% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. Households earn a median $105,288 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. 23,895 residents call 85268 home, typically aged 61. The vacancy rate is 17.0% — elevated. About 50% have a four-year degree. A median home runs $623,400 here, or 5.5 times local income. The tenure split is 83% owner-occupied to 17% rented. Around 35% of renters are cost-burdened. The ZIP holds roughly 13,263 housing units.

Taken together, 85268 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.