ZIP 87553 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Taos County, New Mexico · High Vacancy market
In Taos County, New Mexico, ZIP 87553 scores 17 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (69/100). What sets it apart are the readings on construction/permit lag (67/100), structural risk (38/100), mortgage stress (6/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (6/100) and institutional ownership (3/100). Structural risk reads 38/100 against active distress of 2/100.
The market reads peak — home values rose 1.9% year on year (phase confidence 24/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
1,470 residents call 87553 home, typically aged 41. There are about 650 housing units across 87553. The vacancy rate is 25.1% — elevated. Median household income is $44,219, below the U.S. median near $78,000. The tenure split is 78% owner-occupied to 22% rented. Roughly 15.2% live below the poverty line. A median home runs $202,700 here, or 4.5 times local income. Around 23% of renters are cost-burdened. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 35/100. About 15% have a four-year degree.
On the whole, 87553 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. While 87553 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.
Whether 87553 runs hot or quiet, its 17/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 87553 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Taos County, New Mexico or nationwide. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 87553 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.
The 17/100 for 87553 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. For a buyer, 87553 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.
What is driving ZIP 87553’s distress
Delinquency on tax, investor concentration, insurance pressure, NFIP flood, lagging construction, price dislocation and sale velocity — and the 0 individual distressed properties are listed in full, with owner, address, APN, per-parcel score and exit-velocity read.
The 87553 distress snapshot
Current distress, phase, housing and lender-pressure figures for 87553, drawn from the same report attached to each property.
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