Craighead County, AR: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Every ZIP in Craighead County, Arkansas carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. Individual Craighead County ZIPs score between 26 and 32 on the 0–100 composite. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 42/100 (moderate). DLRadar scores 17 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 31/100.

The contraction-phase county posted home values that fell 0.6% over twelve months, sitting 2.6% below its cycle peak, a 34/100-confidence read. While the market slides, equity cushions thin and discount-to-value windows open.

Craighead County's -0.6% YoY slide (34/100 confidence) means conservative underwriting wins and you underwrite to today's comps, not the peak. A moderate 42/100 lender headwind points to mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 72404 (32/100), ZIP 72405 (32/100), ZIP 72411 (32/100), ZIP 72414 (32/100), ZIP 72417 (32/100), ZIP 72427 (32/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. Other tracked Craighead County ZIPs include 72437, 72447, 72467, 72401, 72416, 72419, 72421, 72438, 72476, 72450.

By the numbers, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Craighead County report 17.8% of units sitting vacant, 63% owner-occupancy, residents with a median age around 36.3, a median household income near $58,013 (below the US norm), typical home values near $139,406, poverty running near 24%. These fundamentals signal the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

All in at 31/100 over 17 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition rather than a blanket buy. Subscribers get each Craighead County parcel's owner, APN and address, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.

The distress read for Craighead County, Arkansas is refreshed as new public records post and uses the same methodology coast to coast, so Craighead County stays directly comparable to any other market you track.

The practical read on Craighead County, Arkansas is a targeting one — find the ZIPs holding real financial pressure, then work the parcels underneath them. The Craighead 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.

Drilling in, Craighead County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 72404 (32/100), 72405 (32/100), 72411 (32/100), 72414 (32/100), 72417 (32/100), 72427 (32/100). DLRadar also scores 72437, 72447, 72467, 72401, 72416, 72419, 72421, 72438 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 Craighead 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.