ZIP 92602 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 92602 (Orange County, California) at a low 29/100 for overall property distress. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (86/100)). The latent-versus-live split is 66/100 structural and 2/100 already moving. Property-level stress concentrates in construction/permit lag (78/100), structural risk (66/100), institutional ownership (19/100). On the quiet end sit institutional ownership (19/100) and mortgage stress (8/100).

The peak-phase market in 92602 posted values that rose 1.2% over the year, and 15% higher over three years (phase confidence 23/100). Near a top, distress surfaces unevenly, so parcel screening beats headline strength.

Around 37% of renters are cost-burdened. Roughly 6.8% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas. Households earn a median $150,406 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. The ZIP holds roughly 10,342 housing units. A median home runs $1,502,000 here, or 8.8 times local income. About 74% have a four-year degree. The vacancy rate is 7.3%. On demographic stress specifically, 92602 scores 43/100. Population is roughly 27,358 with a median age of 37. The tenure split is 45% owner-occupied to 55% rented.

On balance 92602 is mixed, rewarding parcel-by-parcel screening over broad assumptions. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.