Clay County, AR: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
DLRadar tracks property distress across Clay County, Arkansas using verifiable public-record signals alone. The county spans 13 scored ZIP codes, averaging 24/100 composite distress. On bank and credit headwind, Clay County scores 22/100. Individual Clay County ZIPs score between 22 and 32 on the 0–100 composite.
The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 3.3% over the past year, at 24/100 phase confidence. With pricing topped out, broad sweeps stop paying so screen ZIP by ZIP.
With Clay County flat at +3.3% YoY (24/100 confidence), selectivity rules so the headline market won't hand it over. Lender stress at 22/100 (contained) favors tax delinquency, probate and liens.
Distress concentrates in ZIP 72413 (32/100), ZIP 72436 (28/100), ZIP 72461 (26/100), ZIP 72422 (22/100), ZIP 72424 (22/100), ZIP 72430 (22/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. Other tracked Clay County ZIPs include 72435, 72441, 72453, 72454, 72456, 72464, 72470.
On the housing-and-income side, Clay County's scored ZIPs show typical home values near $96,689, vacancy near 21.8%, 79% of homes owner-occupied, household income averaging about $51,721, below the national median, residents with a median age around 46.1, a 20.4% poverty rate. Read together, they shape the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.
With a low 24/100 reading over 13 ZIPs, Clay County is a screen-by-ZIP market — work it parcel by parcel. Subscribers get each Clay County parcel's owner, APN and address, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.
Whether Clay County, Arkansas 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 Clay County can be compared directly against any county in the country.
Clay County, Arkansas is best worked from the top of the score down; blanket outreach across Clay County dilutes effort that the ZIP-level numbers would have focused. The Clay County figures are auditable line by line — county recorders and courts, FHFA price data, FDIC bank filings — with gaps left visible rather than filled by estimate.
The ZIP breakdown for Clay County leads with 72413 (32/100), 72436 (28/100), 72461 (26/100), 72422 (22/100), 72424 (22/100), 72430 (22/100). DLRadar also scores 72435, 72441, 72453, 72454, 72456, 72464, 72470 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 Clay 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.
| ZIP | State | Distress score | 🔒 Owner | 🔒 Property Address | 🔒 Parcel ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72413 | AR | 32 | |||
| 72436 | AR | 28 | |||
| 72461 | AR | 26 | |||
| 72422 | AR | 22 | |||
| 72424 | AR | 22 | |||
| 72430 | AR | 22 | |||
| 72435 | AR | 22 | |||
| 72441 | AR | 22 |
Where distress concentrates in Clay County
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