ZIP 90042 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP code 90042 in Los Angeles County, California carries a composite property-distress score of 32/100 — a moderate reading on DLRadar's deterministic distress index. The pressure is most legible in institutional ownership (72/100), structural risk (68/100), mortgage stress (27/100). mortgage stress (27/100) and construction/permit lag (2/100) stay muted. On the structural side it scores 68/100, with 8/100 of stress already active. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (100/100), FEMA disaster exposure (95/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (93/100).

The market reads peak — home values held roughly flat year on year, and 9% higher over three years (phase confidence 12/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

The typical home is worth about $976,400 (10.0× income, severely stretched). There are about 22,639 housing units across 90042. Median household income is $94,401, above the U.S. median near $78,000. Population is roughly 58,344 with a median age of 38. DLRadar's demographic-stress index for the area reads 51/100. Educational attainment sits at 40% bachelor's-or-above. Roughly 10.6% live below the poverty line. 46% of housing is owner-occupied. Rent burden reaches 39% of tenant households. The vacancy rate is 5.0%.

Overall, 90042 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. There is no property file for 90042 at the moment; the composite and its components are still built from verifiable records.

Big metro or rural, 90042 runs through one identical scoring model, so its 32/100 sits on the same scale as every other ZIP in Los Angeles County, California and the nation. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 90042 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

The 32/100 figure for 90042 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. The point of the 90042 score is action: it tells you whether to open the ZIP, and DLRadar takes it from there to parcels, funding and close.