ZIP 92618 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Orange County, California, ZIP 92618 scores 27 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (86/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (62/100), structural risk (62/100), institutional ownership (19/100). institutional ownership (19/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) stay muted. Structural risk reads 62/100 against active distress of 2/100.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values held roughly flat over the trailing year (phase confidence 12/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

62,296 residents call 92618 home, typically aged 34. The typical home is worth about $1,283,800 (8.5× income, severely stretched). 40% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 73% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The poverty rate is 8.4%. Vacancy runs 8.7%. There are about 27,435 housing units across 92618. Rent burden reaches 43% of tenant households. On demographic stress specifically, 92618 scores 44/100. Median household income is $135,609, above the U.S. median near $78,000.

Net-net, 92618 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. No parcel file is published for 92618 yet, but every score above is drawn from a verifiable public dataset and refreshed as records post.

The 92618 read uses the identical public-record model applied coast to coast, which means its 27/100 score means exactly what it means anywhere else, and 92618 stays directly comparable to neighboring ZIPs and the rest of Orange County, California. Where the public record is thin for 92618, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

Behind 92618's composite sit distinct signals (foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, lender and structural), each scored on its own before rolling up, so two ZIPs with the same total can describe very different situations on the ground. For an operator, 92618 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.