ZIP 96134 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Modoc County, California, ZIP 96134 scores 17 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's public-record index. Latent structural risk is 38/100 while live distress already moving reads 2/100. Its heaviest discrete signals: construction/permit lag (81/100), structural risk (38/100), mortgage stress (6/100). mortgage stress (6/100) and institutional ownership (4/100) stay muted.

The contraction-phase market in 96134 posted values that held roughly flat over the year (phase confidence 17/100). Softening prices widen the spread between distressed and market value — what acquisition buyers watch for.

Households earn a median $47,609 — below the roughly $78,000 national figure. About 2,347 people live here, median age 39. 80% of housing is owner-occupied. The vacancy rate is 24.4% — elevated. Roughly 19.6% live below the poverty line, elevated and often tied to deferred-maintenance inventory. The ZIP holds roughly 1,041 housing units. Rent burden reaches 22% of tenant households. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 31/100. Around 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. A median home runs $200,000 here, or 3.4 times local income.

Taken together, 96134 profiles as an active-distress market where motivated-seller and below-market acquisitions concentrate. Parcel-level detail for 96134 is not published yet -- the ZIP-level readings above remain fully sourced to public records.

No ZIP is too small to score: 96134 passes through the same foreclosure, tax, mortgage and bank-stress model as any major-metro ZIP, so its 17/100 composite is a like-for-like number rather than an isolated estimate. Where the public record is thin for 96134, the field stays empty rather than modeled, and fills in as new documents post.

The 17/100 figure for 96134 is a composite, not one metric: it rolls up foreclosure and pre-foreclosure activity, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, local lender headwind, and structural risk into a single reading, which is why a ZIP can look calm on price yet score high on distress. For an operator, 96134 is step one - verify, pull the parcels driving the score, and move straight through to a funded close.