ZIP 93243 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Kern County, California's ZIP 93243 registers 32/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (71/100), institutional ownership (58/100), construction/permit lag (39/100). By contrast, construction/permit lag (39/100) register low. The latent-versus-live split is 71/100 structural and 0/100 already moving. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (78/100), FEMA disaster exposure (77/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 1.7% year on year, and 16% higher over three years (phase confidence 22/100). Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

The ZIP holds roughly 748 housing units. The poverty rate is 33.4% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. The typical home is worth about $422,700 (10.0× income, severely stretched). Around 73% of renters are cost-burdened. About 900 people live here, median age 42. Around 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The vacancy rate is 39.6% — elevated. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 61/100. At $34,737, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. 69% of housing is owner-occupied.

Net-net, 93243 is a working-distress ZIP — the kind that rewards current, parcel-level intelligence. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.