ZIP 87517 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 87517 in Taos County, New Mexico carries a composite property-distress score of 17/100 — a low reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (69/100). Leading the profile are construction/permit lag (64/100), structural risk (37/100), institutional ownership (3/100). On the quiet end sit structural risk (37/100) and institutional ownership (3/100). The latent-versus-live split is 37/100 structural and 0/100 already moving.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 1.9% over the trailing year, at 24/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

59.3% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. 100% of housing is owner-occupied. The vacancy rate is 55.5% — elevated. Educational attainment sits at 68% bachelor's-or-above. There are about 241 housing units across 87517. 150 residents call 87517 home, typically aged 57. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 66/100.

Net-net, 87517 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.

Big metro or rural, 87517 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 17/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Taos County, New Mexico and the nation. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 87517 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

Behind 87517's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. For a buyer, 87517 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.