ZIP 85553 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Gila County, Arizona's ZIP 85553 registers 26/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. Structural risk reads 60/100 against active distress of 4/100. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (88/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (84/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (69/100), structural risk (60/100), institutional ownership (19/100). institutional ownership (19/100) and mortgage stress (12/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 1.7% over the trailing year, at 16/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Vacancy runs 31.5%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Rent burden reaches 60% of tenant households. 1,629 residents call 85553 home, typically aged 70. On demographic stress specifically, 85553 scores 41/100. There are about 1,313 housing units across 85553. Households earn a median $49,630 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The tenure split is 86% owner-occupied to 14% rented. About 16% have a four-year degree. A median home runs $269,100 here, or 5.1 times local income. Roughly 17.6% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory.

Taken together, 85553 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.