ZIP 90638 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Los Angeles County, California's ZIP 90638 registers 36/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (100/100), FEMA disaster exposure (98/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (93/100). 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. Structural exposure scores 78 and live distress 8 on the 0–100 scale.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 1.2% over the trailing year, and 15% higher over three years, at 23/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

45,714 residents call 90638 home, typically aged 44. Vacancy runs 2.2%. 76% of housing is owner-occupied. At $110,606, median income runs above typical U.S. levels. The typical home is worth about $827,300 (6.9× income). The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 39/100. There are about 15,818 housing units across 90638. Rent burden reaches 47% of tenant households. Around 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The poverty rate is 6.5% — low.

Overall, 90638 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.