ZIP 88260 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 88260 (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. 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. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (84/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.8% year on year, and 12% higher over three years, at 30/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

About 15,410 people live here, median age 34. The typical home is worth about $175,400 (2.3× income, relatively affordable). 74% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The poverty rate is 20.9% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. At $75,197, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. Vacancy runs 14.9%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 30/100. There are about 5,283 housing units across 88260. Rent burden reaches 30% of tenant households.

Net-net, 88260 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.