ZIP 88252 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

On DLRadar's 0-100 distress 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 54/100 structural and 0/100 already moving. Leading the profile are construction/permit lag (72/100), structural risk (54/100), 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.