ZIP 92844 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

ZIP 92844's composite property-distress score is 27/100 - DLRadar classes that as low for Orange County, California. The most distinctive pressure shows up in construction/permit lag (63/100), structural risk (62/100), institutional ownership (19/100). institutional ownership (19/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) stay muted. Environmental exposure also runs high (climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (86/100)). The split runs 62/100 structural to 2/100 active on the ground.

The market reads peak — home values held roughly flat year on year, and 25% higher over three years (phase confidence 12/100). At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

The vacancy rate is 3.9%. Around 61% of renters are cost-burdened. Roughly 15.8% live below the poverty line. Population is roughly 22,719 with a median age of 41. The ZIP holds roughly 7,139 housing units. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 57/100. Median household income is $73,590, near the U.S. median near $78,000. 41% of housing is owner-occupied. Around 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Home values center near $753,900, an affordability ratio of 9.6× — stretched.

Net-net, 92844 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. 92844 has no individual parcels listed at present; the signals above still come from the same audited public sources used nationwide.

Because one deterministic model scores every ZIP, 92844's 27/100 can be lined up against any neighbor in Orange County, California or any ZIP coast to coast. The score is rebuilt from public data as it updates, so 92844 reflects the current record instead of a stale or modeled snapshot.

92844's score blends several independent layers — foreclosure and mortgage stress, tax and lien delinquency, bank headwind and structural exposure — into one 0–100 number, so understanding the components matters as much as the headline for anyone screening the ZIP. For a buyer, 92844 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.