ZIP 96096 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Composite property distress in 96096 (Shasta County, California) lands at 23/100 — low on DLRadar's public-record scoring. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (93/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (86/100). The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (53/100), construction/permit lag (32/100), institutional ownership (20/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (20/100) and mortgage stress (9/100) register low. Structural exposure scores 53 and live distress 3 on the 0–100 scale.

The market reads contraction — home values held roughly flat year on year, 2.8% off the recent peak, and 22% higher over three years, at 36/100 phase confidence. A cooling market tends to open discount-to-value windows.

The typical home is worth about $412,900 (6.2× income). The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 38/100. About 717 people live here, median age 58. Around 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. There are about 352 housing units across 96096. Vacancy runs 21.0%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. The poverty rate is 11.9%. At $60,547, median income runs below typical U.S. levels. 86% of housing is owner-occupied. Rent burden reaches 32% of tenant households.

Net-net, 96096 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.