ZIP 90401 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 90401 (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, at 23/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

7,925 residents call 90401 home, typically aged 36. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 53/100. The typical home is worth about $1,149,200 (10.6× income, severely stretched). The poverty rate is 19.2% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Vacancy runs 14.5%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Rent burden reaches 35% of tenant households. There are about 6,104 housing units across 90401. Around 76% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 5% of housing is owner-occupied. At $106,704, median income runs above typical U.S. levels.

Taken together, 90401 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.