ZIP 88337 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

Scored purely from public records, 88337 (Otero County, New Mexico) returns a moderate composite of 31/100. Its heaviest discrete signals: construction/permit lag (75/100), structural risk (67/100), institutional ownership (56/100). On the quiet end sit mortgage stress (25/100). Environmental exposure also runs high (FEMA disaster exposure (94/100), climate & FEMA risk (83/100)). On the structural side it scores 67/100, with 7/100 of stress already active.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 1.9% over the trailing year, and 3% lower over three years, at 24/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

Households earn a median $58,171 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. The poverty rate is 18.4% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. The vacancy rate is 20.5% — elevated. There are about 1,166 housing units across 88337. Home values center near $158,600, an affordability ratio of 2.5× — accessible. Population is roughly 1,945 with a median age of 56. Around 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. On demographic stress specifically, 88337 scores 31/100. Rent burden reaches 52% of tenant households. 78% of housing is owner-occupied.

Net-net, 88337 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.

No ZIP is too small to score: 88337 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 31/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Nothing here is interpolated — where a source is thin for 88337, DLRadar leaves it blank rather than guessing, and re-scores as new records post.

The 31/100 for 88337 sums independent layers - foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender headwind and structural risk - so the mix behind the number matters as much as the number. Practically, 88337 works as a screen — verify the reading, drill to the specific parcels driving it, and carry the deal through capital and closing on the platform.