ZIP 88242 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data
DLRadar grades ZIP 88242 (Lea County, New Mexico) at a low 23/100 for overall property distress. Structural exposure scores 53 and live distress 2 on the 0–100 scale. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (84/100). Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (64/100), structural risk (53/100), institutional ownership (14/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (14/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) register low.
The market reads peak — home values rose 2.8% year on year, and 24% higher over three years, at 30/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.
About 7,684 people live here, median age 34. Rent burden reaches 36% of tenant households. There are about 2,967 housing units across 88242. 85% of housing is owner-occupied. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 27/100. The poverty rate is 11.3%. The typical home is worth about $260,200 (2.5× income, relatively affordable). At $88,654, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. Vacancy runs 8.4%. Around 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.
Overall 88242 looks resilient on the surface, so the edge is isolating individual stressed parcels. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.
Distress signal breakdown — ZIP 88242
Tax delinquency, institutional ownership, insurance pressure, NFIP/flood, construction lag, price dislocation and auction velocity — plus the 0 individual distressed properties (owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read) are in the full DLRadar report.
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