Butte County, CA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Across Butte County, California, DLRadar grades every ZIP for foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress distress. 21 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 32/100 distress. ZIP-level distress ranges from 33/100 at the top down to 26/100. Lender pressure in Butte County registers 36/100 — a moderate bank-stress headwind.

The contraction-phase county posted home values that fell 2.4% over twelve months, now 2.4% off the recent peak, a 43/100-confidence read. As the cycle turns down, equity cushions thin leaving room for disciplined offers.

Butte County's -2.4% YoY slide (43/100 confidence) means discipline beats speed as motivated sellers multiply. Mid-range bank stress at 36/100 points to mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 95916 (33/100), ZIP 95917 (33/100), ZIP 95926 (33/100), ZIP 95928 (33/100), ZIP 95929 (33/100), ZIP 95938 (33/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. The breakdown continues through 95942, 95948, 95954, 95958, 95965, 95966, 95968, 95969, 95974, 95978 and more.

By the numbers, Butte County's tracked footprint run 19% of households below the poverty line, 70% of homes owner-occupied, typical home values near $404,193, a median household income near $69,594 (near the US norm), residents with a median age around 41.5, a 11.5% vacancy rate. Taken together, they drive the depth of motivated supply and the pace of resale.

Net of it all, 32/100 over 21 ZIPs means Butte County rewards parcel-by-parcel work and not a county-wide play. A DLRadar subscription opens every Butte County parcel: owner, APN and address, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.

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

Butte County, California is best worked from the top of the score down; blanket outreach across Butte County dilutes effort that the ZIP-level numbers would have focused. What supports the Butte County read is documentary: filings from the recorder and courts, federal price and bank data, and blanks wherever coverage is thin.

The ZIP breakdown for Butte County leads with 95916 (33/100), 95917 (33/100), 95926 (33/100), 95928 (33/100), 95929 (33/100), 95938 (33/100). DLRadar also scores 95942, 95948, 95954, 95958, 95965, 95966, 95968, 95969 and more 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 Butte 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.