ZIP 90002 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Los Angeles County, California's ZIP 90002 registers 36/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (78/100), institutional ownership (73/100), construction/permit lag (37/100). construction/permit lag (37/100) and mortgage stress (27/100) stay muted. The latent-versus-live split is 78/100 structural and 8/100 already moving. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (100/100), FEMA disaster exposure (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (93/100).

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 1.2% over the trailing year, and 12% higher over three years (phase confidence 23/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

At $56,158, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The poverty rate is 23.4% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. The vacancy rate is 3.5%. Around 58% of renters are cost-burdened. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 58/100. Around 8% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The typical home is worth about $534,200 (8.9× income, severely stretched). 52,735 residents call 90002 home, typically aged 31. 41% of housing is owner-occupied. The ZIP holds roughly 13,662 housing units.

Taken together, 90002 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.