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

Washington County, Alabama is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 42/100 (moderate). The county's ZIP scores run from 20 up to 32/100. Coverage runs to 16 ZIPs across Washington County, a low 21/100 average.

Currently expansion, Washington County saw prices rise 5.0% year over year, at 34/100 phase confidence. Under a rising market, the laggards keep building and the breakdown below pinpoints them.

At +5.0% YoY (34/100 confidence), liquidity improves for clean exits — and a rising tide cleans up those exits. A moderate 42/100 lender headwind implies mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

Highest scores land in 36522 (32/100), 36513 (28/100), 36919 (23/100), 36518 (20/100), 36529 (20/100), 36538 (20/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. The breakdown continues through 36539, 36548, 36553, 36556, 36558, 36569, 36581, 36583, 36584, 36585 and more.

On the housing-and-income side, the Washington County ZIPs on file run a 26.2% vacancy rate, poverty running near 14.8%, home values averaging roughly $172,750, below the US, a median age of 46.9, a median household income near $61,560 (below the US norm), 84% owner-occupancy. Numbers like these drive who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

Net of it all, 21/100 over 16 ZIPs means Washington County rewards parcel-by-parcel work and not a county-wide play. A DLRadar subscription opens every Washington County parcel: owner, address and APN, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

Whether Washington 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 Washington County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Scores in Washington County, Alabama exist to concentrate effort: a handful of ZIPs hold most of the distress, and the rest seldom justify the acquisition cost. What supports the Washington County read is documentary: filings from the recorder and courts, federal price and bank data, and blanks wherever coverage is thin.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Washington County are 36522 (32/100), 36513 (28/100), 36919 (23/100), 36518 (20/100), 36529 (20/100), 36538 (20/100). DLRadar also scores 36539, 36548, 36553, 36556, 36558, 36569, 36581, 36583 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.

The Washington County score is not a single measure but a composite: foreclosure activity, mortgage and tax-lien stress, and local lender headwind each feed it, which is why understanding the components matters as much as the headline number.