ZIP 93518 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Kern County, California's ZIP 93518 registers 31/100 composite distress, which DLRadar reads as moderate. Structural risk reads 68/100 against active distress of 6/100. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (99/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (70/100), FEMA disaster exposure (64/100). The most distinctive pressure shows up in structural risk (68/100), institutional ownership (50/100), construction/permit lag (48/100). mortgage stress (19/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 2.0% over the trailing year, at 21/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

1,115 residents call 93518 home, typically aged 52. The tenure split is 87% owner-occupied to 13% rented. Households earn a median $63,095 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. About 37% have a four-year degree. Vacancy runs 30.1%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Rent burden reaches 64% of tenant households. A median home runs $285,500 here, or 4.3 times local income. There are about 678 housing units across 93518. On demographic stress specifically, 93518 scores 35/100. Roughly 5.9% live below the poverty line, a low share typical of higher-equity areas.

Taken together, 93518 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.