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

Every ZIP in Dekalb County, Alabama carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 35/100. Individual Dekalb County ZIPs score between 23 and 30 on the 0–100 composite. There are 24 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 27/100).

Currently peak, Dekalb County saw prices rise 3.2% year over year, a 22/100-confidence read. With pricing topped out, broad sweeps stop paying with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

With Dekalb County flat at +3.2% YoY (22/100 confidence), selectivity rules — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. A mid-cycle 35/100 lender reading means a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

By composite, 35959 (30/100), 35983 (30/100), 35984 (28/100), 35961 (27/100), 35963 (27/100), 35967 (27/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Also scored across the county: 35968, 35971, 35974, 35978, 35979, 35981, 35986, 35988, 35989, 35771.

Underneath the scores, the Dekalb County ZIPs on file run poverty running near 17.4%, a 17.4% vacancy rate, incomes around $53,161, 80% of homes owner-occupied, typical home values near $149,904, a median age of 41.8. Read together, they set up the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

Dekalb County, Alabama's 27/100 average over 24 ZIPs says the opportunity hides below the average — work it parcel by parcel. A DLRadar subscription opens every Dekalb County parcel: owner, mailing address, APN, a distress score and bank-exposure read.

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

In Dekalb County, Alabama, the scores are a targeting tool first: they tell you which ZIPs hold the distress and which owners are most likely under real financial pressure, so limited acquisition effort lands where it converts. The Dekalb County scoring is reproducible from public sources alone, and DLRadar declines to estimate where the underlying record is incomplete.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Dekalb County are 35959 (30/100), 35983 (30/100), 35984 (28/100), 35961 (27/100), 35963 (27/100), 35967 (27/100). DLRadar also scores 35968, 35971, 35974, 35978, 35979, 35981, 35986, 35988 and more 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 Dekalb 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.