ZIP 88252 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report
Lea County, New Mexico · High Vacancy market
On DLRadar's 0-100 public-record scale, ZIP 88252 in Lea County, New Mexico comes in at 24, a low composite-distress reading. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (84/100). The latent-versus-live split is 55/100 structural and 0/100 already moving. Leading the profile are construction/permit lag (75/100), structural risk (55/100), institutional ownership (13/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (13/100) register low.
The market reads peak — home values rose 1.9% year on year, at 24/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.
Households earn a median $60,703 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 26/100. Around 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. There are about 1,037 housing units across 88252. Home values center near $97,600, an affordability ratio of 1.7× — accessible. Population is roughly 2,069 with a median age of 44. 21.8% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. 70% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 19% of renters are cost-burdened. The vacancy rate is 19.3% — elevated.
Net-net, 88252 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. 88252 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.
Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 88252's 24/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Lea County, New Mexico or any ZIP coast to coast. Sparse data for 88252 shows as blanks, never estimates, and the score updates on every fresh public filing.
88252's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. The point of the 88252 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.
Signal-by-signal read on 88252
Tax-delinquent parcels, institutional ownership, insurance strain, flood risk, construction lag, price dislocation and auction speed — plus the 0 individual distressed properties (owner, address, APN, per-property score and exit read) are in the full DLRadar report.
The 88252 distress snapshot
Real-time distress, cycle phase, housing and bank-stress readings for 88252, the same set carried on every parcel.
Neighbouring ZIPs in Lea County
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Further distress data across Lea County, New Mexico at ZIP, county and state level.
Unlock the full ZIP 88252 acquisition report
The full 88252 file lists each distressed parcel with owner, address, APN, per-property score, bank exposure and exit-velocity read, and carries it straight through funding and closing. Refreshed continuously.
Each signal above is traceable to an open dataset · methodology