ZIP 93516 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 93516 (Kern County, California) at a moderate 32/100 for overall property distress. Structural exposure scores 70 and live distress 6 on the 0–100 scale. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (80/100), FEMA disaster exposure (71/100). Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (70/100), institutional ownership (56/100), construction/permit lag (42/100). By contrast, mortgage stress (21/100) register low.

The market reads peak — home values rose 1.8% year on year, at 23/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Vacancy runs 20.5%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Rent burden reaches 37% of tenant households. About 2,742 people live here, median age 33. Around 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. There are about 1,236 housing units across 93516. The poverty rate is 30.0% — high, a tax-stress and distress correlate. 59% of housing is owner-occupied. At $71,250, median income runs near typical U.S. levels. The typical home is worth about $126,600 (1.4× income, relatively affordable). The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 31/100.

Net-net, 93516 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.