ZIP 90221 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 90221 (Los Angeles County, California) at a moderate 36/100 for overall property distress. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (100/100), FEMA disaster exposure (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (93/100). Property-level stress concentrates 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. Structural risk reads 78/100 against active distress of 8/100.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 1.2% over the trailing year, and 13% higher over three years, at 23/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

53% of housing is owner-occupied. Rent burden reaches 53% of tenant households. 50,782 residents call 90221 home, typically aged 34. Vacancy runs 3.6%. The typical home is worth about $575,000 (8.0× income, severely stretched). There are about 12,878 housing units across 90221. Around 8% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The poverty rate is 17.6% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. At $68,191, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 52/100.

Overall, 90221 shows a mixed profile — neither uniformly stressed nor insulated — so opportunity is property-specific. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.