ZIP 88256 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 88256 (Eddy County, New Mexico) at a minimal 13/100 for overall property distress. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (83/100). The latent-versus-live split is 26/100 structural and 1/100 already moving. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (26/100), mortgage stress (3/100), institutional ownership (3/100). mortgage stress (3/100) and institutional ownership (3/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.8% over the trailing year (phase confidence 30/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Around 47% of renters are cost-burdened. Roughly 16.4% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. Households earn a median $60,139 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. About 7% have a four-year degree. The ZIP holds roughly 909 housing units. On demographic stress specifically, 88256 scores 34/100. The vacancy rate is 23.7% — elevated. 1,813 residents call 88256 home, typically aged 34. A median home runs $211,000 here, or 3.0 times local income. The tenure split is 78% owner-occupied to 22% rented.

Taken together, 88256 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.