ZIP 87579 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Taos County, New Mexico's ZIP 87579 registers 18/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (69/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (69/100), structural risk (38/100), mortgage stress (6/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (6/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) register low. Structural exposure scores 38 and live distress 2 on the 0–100 scale.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.8% year on year, at 30/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

About 1,328 people live here, median age 55. The poverty rate is 18.2% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. The typical home is worth about $154,400 (2.0× income, relatively affordable). 82% of housing is owner-occupied. Vacancy runs 32.8%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. There are about 717 housing units across 87579. Rent burden reaches 19% of tenant households. At $63,904, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 27/100. Around 12% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Net-net, 87579 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.