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

For Cherokee County, Alabama, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. Lender pressure in Cherokee County registers 69/100 — a elevated bank-stress headwind. The county's ZIP scores run from 25 up to 30/100. There are 11 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 28/100).

In its expansion phase, Cherokee County home prices rose 5.0% across the last year, a 34/100-confidence read. While the county appreciates, specific ZIPs still slip and the breakdown below pinpoints them.

Even appreciating at +5.0% YoY (34/100 confidence), liquidity improves for clean exits where the scoring still flags pressure. Its 69/100 lender headwind signals what's coming: short sales and foreclosures accelerate.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Cherokee County are 35959 (30/100), 35960 (30/100), 35973 (30/100), 35983 (30/100), 36272 (29/100), 35984 (28/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. The breakdown continues through 35961, 35967, 30165, 35901, 35903 and more.

By the numbers, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Cherokee County come in at household income averaging about $54,094, below the national median, an owner-occupied share of 74%, a 24.7% vacancy rate, residents with a median age around 44, 16.9% of households below the poverty line, median home values around $160,500 (below the national figure). Numbers like these frame the depth of motivated supply and the pace of resale.

With a low 28/100 reading over 11 ZIPs, Cherokee County rewards parcel-by-parcel work and not a county-wide play. A DLRadar subscription opens every Cherokee County parcel: owner, mailing address, APN, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

Because Cherokee County, Alabama is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Cherokee County against neighboring markets or the rest of Alabama on equal footing.

Approach Cherokee County by rank rather than by average — the 28/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. Provenance for Cherokee County is explicit: recorders and courts for filings, FHFA for prices, FDIC for lenders. No interpolation, no synthetic values.

Drilling in, Cherokee County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 35959 (30/100), 35960 (30/100), 35973 (30/100), 35983 (30/100), 36272 (29/100), 35984 (28/100). DLRadar also scores 35961, 35967, 30165, 35901, 35903 across the county. Every one of these is scored independently — a ZIP's composite reflects its own recorded distress, which is why the county average alone hides where the real pressure sits.

DLRadar's composite for Cherokee 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.