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

DLRadar tracks property distress across Dale County, Alabama using verifiable public-record signals alone. Individual Dale County ZIPs score between 18 and 28 on the 0–100 composite. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 66/100 (elevated). Coverage runs to 14 ZIPs across Dale County, a low 22/100 average.

In its peak phase, Dale County home prices rose 3.2% across the last year (phase confidence 22/100). With values leveling off, the opportunity narrows leaving the wins in individual deals.

Near the cycle top at +3.2% YoY (22/100 confidence), the wins are surgical well beyond the county average. Its 66/100 lender headwind is a buyer tailwind: banks under pressure move REO faster.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 36303 (28/100), ZIP 36330 (27/100), ZIP 36317 (25/100), ZIP 36352 (25/100), ZIP 36353 (25/100), ZIP 36345 (24/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. Further scored ZIPs: 36311, 36322, 36350, 36360, 36362, 36371, 36010, 36374.

Demographically, the Dale County ZIPs on file show median home values around $162,100 (below the national figure), 70% of homes owner-occupied, household income averaging about $60,202, below the national median, a 16.8% vacancy rate, a median age of 42.5, a 17.1% poverty rate. These fundamentals shape which owners come under strain and how quickly stock clears.

Dale County, Alabama's 22/100 average over 14 ZIPs says distress here is parcel-specific for a disciplined buyer. Unlock Dale County to see every parcel's owner, mailing address, APN, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.

No county is too small to score: Dale County, Alabama runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Dale County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in Alabama.

For anyone buying in Dale County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 28/100. Every figure traces to a public federal or county source — recorder and court records for foreclosure and liens, FHFA for the price cycle, FDIC for lender stress — and DLRadar leaves a signal blank rather than estimating where Dale County data is thin.

The ZIP breakdown for Dale County leads with 36303 (28/100), 36330 (27/100), 36317 (25/100), 36352 (25/100), 36353 (25/100), 36345 (24/100). DLRadar also scores 36311, 36322, 36350, 36360, 36362, 36371, 36010, 36374 across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

DLRadar's composite for Dale 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.