ZIP 96122 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

Composite property distress in 96122 (Plumas County, California) lands at 18/100 — low on DLRadar's public-record scoring. Structural exposure scores 38 and live distress 5 on the 0–100 scale. Climate and flood risk are elevated too — climate & FEMA risk (83/100). The sharpest non-environmental signals are structural risk (38/100), construction/permit lag (37/100), institutional ownership (17/100). institutional ownership (17/100) and mortgage stress (15/100) stay muted.

Prices here sit in a peak phase: values rose 1.5% over the trailing year, and 10% higher over three years, at 21/100 phase confidence. At a peak the opportunity is selective — specific stressed parcels, not a broad discount.

4,492 residents call 96122 home, typically aged 40. The tenure split is 64% owner-occupied to 36% rented. About 14% have a four-year degree. Households earn a median $52,096 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. A median home runs $273,700 here, or 4.6 times local income. There are about 2,481 housing units across 96122. Vacancy runs 24.5%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. On demographic stress specifically, 96122 scores 38/100. Roughly 15.3% live below the poverty line. Rent burden reaches 43% of tenant households.

Taken together, 96122 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.