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

Across Winston County, Alabama, DLRadar grades every ZIP for foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress distress. The county spans 12 scored ZIP codes, averaging 19/100 composite distress. Individual Winston County ZIPs score between 16 and 28 on the 0–100 composite. Lender pressure in Winston County registers 21/100 — a contained bank-stress headwind.

Currently expansion, Winston County saw prices rise 5.0% year over year (phase confidence 34/100). Under a rising market, pockets of distress persist which the scoring still flags.

At +5.0% YoY (34/100 confidence), distress still hides in specific ZIPs where the scoring still flags pressure. A contained 21/100 bank headwind puts the live signals on owner-driven distress more than bank stock.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Winston County are 35565 (28/100), 35053 (22/100), 35179 (22/100), 35098 (21/100), 35503 (20/100), 35578 (19/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Also scored across the county: 35540, 35541, 35553, 35572, 35575, 35577.

On the housing-and-income side, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Winston County report 84% of homes owner-occupied, a median household income near $54,289 (below the US norm), home values averaging roughly $160,291, below the US, a 26.8% vacancy rate, a median age of 44.7, poverty running near 23.2%. Taken together, they drive the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.

All in at 19/100 over 12 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition where the ZIP scores point. Unlock Winston County to see every parcel's owner, APN and address, score, bank exposure and an exit-velocity estimate.

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

Read Winston County, Alabama as a heat map for effort — the county's low composite of 19/100 hides wide ZIP-level variation, and the return comes from chasing the hot ZIPs, not the average. All of it is deterministic and auditable: Winston County's numbers come from county recorders, the courts, FHFA and FDIC, with nothing interpolated or guessed when a source is sparse.

Drilling in, Winston County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 35565 (28/100), 35053 (22/100), 35179 (22/100), 35098 (21/100), 35503 (20/100), 35578 (19/100). DLRadar also scores 35540, 35541, 35553, 35572, 35575, 35577 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.

The Winston 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.