Barbour County, AL: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Across Barbour County, Alabama, DLRadar grades every ZIP for foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress distress. Lender pressure in Barbour County registers 53/100 — a moderate bank-stress headwind. 9 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 19/100 distress. ZIP-level distress ranges from 25/100 at the top down to 13/100.

Currently peak, Barbour County saw prices rise 3.2% year over year, a 22/100-confidence read. At this stage of the cycle, the average masks the outliers with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

With Barbour County flat at +3.2% YoY (22/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific well beyond the county average. A mid-cycle 53/100 lender reading implies both signal sets in play here.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 36317 (25/100), ZIP 36027 (21/100), ZIP 36311 (20/100), ZIP 36016 (19/100), ZIP 36017 (18/100), ZIP 36048 (18/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. Further scored ZIPs: 36374, 36053, 36005.

By the numbers, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Barbour County show a median household income near $47,228 (below the US norm), poverty running near 17.6%, 77% owner-occupancy, vacancy near 23.1%, residents with a median age around 43.6, home values averaging roughly $124,544, below the US. Taken together, they shape who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

All in at 19/100 over 9 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific where the ZIP scores point. Inside DLRadar, each Barbour County property carries owner, APN and address, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

The distress read for Barbour County, Alabama is refreshed as new public records post and uses the same methodology coast to coast, so Barbour County stays directly comparable to any other market you track.

For anyone buying in Barbour County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 25/100. All of it is deterministic and auditable: Barbour County's numbers come from county recorders, the courts, FHFA and FDIC, with nothing interpolated or guessed when a source is sparse.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Barbour County are 36317 (25/100), 36027 (21/100), 36311 (20/100), 36016 (19/100), 36017 (18/100), 36048 (18/100). DLRadar also scores 36374, 36053, 36005 across the county. Each code carries its own composite built from that ZIP's foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien and lender signals, so two neighboring ZIPs can diverge sharply even inside one county.

DLRadar's composite for Barbour County blends several independent signals — foreclosure and pre-foreclosure filings, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, and the bank-stress headwind of the lenders operating locally — into one 0–100 score per ZIP, so a market can rank high on one axis and low on another.