ZIP 93501 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

In Kern County, California, ZIP 93501 scores 31 of 100 for composite distress, a moderate level on DLRadar's public-record index. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (70/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100). Its standout signals are structural risk (68/100), institutional ownership (50/100), construction/permit lag (48/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (19/100) register low. Structural exposure scores 68 and live distress 6 on the 0–100 scale.

The market reads peak — home values rose 2.0% year on year, and 29% higher over three years, at 21/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

The typical home is worth about $196,100 (3.3× income, relatively affordable). Vacancy runs 10.9%. About 5,944 people live here, median age 37. At $55,372, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. 45% of housing is owner-occupied. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 37/100. The poverty rate is 22.7% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. Rent burden reaches 37% of tenant households. There are about 2,382 housing units across 93501. Around 7% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Net-net, 93501 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.