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

Across Etowah County, Alabama, DLRadar grades every ZIP for foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress distress. The county's ZIP scores run from 25 up to 35/100. DLRadar scores 15 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 27/100. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 34/100.

Currently peak, Etowah County saw prices rise 0.6% year over year, sitting 4.6% below its cycle peak (phase confidence 47/100). With pricing topped out, broad sweeps stop paying as the ZIP scores below show.

At +0.6% YoY and 47/100 confidence, opportunity is parcel-specific well beyond the county average. A contained 34/100 bank headwind points the search to tax, code and ownership-change cases over REO.

Highest scores land in 36271 (35/100), 36272 (29/100), 35121 (28/100), 35905 (28/100), 35972 (28/100), 35961 (27/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. Further scored ZIPs: 35901, 35903, 35904, 35906, 35907, 35952, 35954, 35956, 35990.

Profile-wise, Etowah County's tracked footprint come in at poverty running near 16.1%, 17.4% of units sitting vacant, a median household income near $53,419 (below the US norm), median home values around $156,600 (below the national figure), residents with a median age around 42.1, an owner-occupied share of 78%. Read together, they frame the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.

Etowah County, Alabama's 27/100 average over 15 ZIPs says Etowah County is a screen-by-ZIP market for a disciplined buyer. Subscribers get each Etowah County parcel's owner, mailing address, APN, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.

Whether Etowah County, Alabama carries heavy distress or only a handful of flagged parcels, every score here is built the same deterministic way — from recorded foreclosures, tax delinquency, liens and lender stress — so Etowah County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

For anyone buying in Etowah County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 35/100. What supports the Etowah County read is documentary: filings from the recorder and courts, federal price and bank data, and blanks wherever coverage is thin.

Drilling in, Etowah County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 36271 (35/100), 36272 (29/100), 35121 (28/100), 35905 (28/100), 35972 (28/100), 35961 (27/100). DLRadar also scores 35901, 35903, 35904, 35906, 35907, 35952, 35954, 35956 and more 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.

Under Etowah County's headline composite sit distinct layers — recorded foreclosures, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind — each scored separately before they roll up, so the same total can describe very different markets.