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

Across Humboldt County, California, DLRadar grades every ZIP for foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress distress. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 48 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 13 to 27 out of 100. Coverage runs to 36 ZIPs across Humboldt County, a low 27/100 average.

Currently peak, Humboldt County saw prices rise 0.4% year over year (phase confidence 12/100). On a market plateau, distress turns selective leaving the wins in individual deals.

At +0.4% YoY and 12/100 confidence, opportunity is parcel-specific well beyond the county average. Mid-range bank stress at 48/100 points to a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

The sharpest Humboldt County readings come from 95501 (27/100), 95503 (27/100), 95511 (27/100), 95514 (27/100), 95519 (27/100), 95521 (27/100) — open any for the parcel detail. Further scored ZIPs: 95524, 95525, 95528, 95536, 95537, 95540, 95542, 95545, 95546, 95547.

On the housing-and-income side, Humboldt County's scored ZIPs come in at a median household income near $62,747 (below the US norm), 24.7% of households below the poverty line, typical home values near $505,058, vacancy near 24.4%, a median age of 43.9, 63% of homes owner-occupied. Taken together, they drive where pressure builds and how liquid the exit will be.

At 27/100 composite over 36 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition — work it parcel by parcel. A DLRadar subscription opens every Humboldt County parcel: owner, mailing address, APN, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.

Because Humboldt County, California is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Humboldt County against neighboring markets or the rest of California on equal footing.

For anyone buying in Humboldt County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 27/100. What supports the Humboldt County read is documentary: filings from the recorder and courts, federal price and bank data, and blanks wherever coverage is thin.

Drilling in, Humboldt County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 95501 (27/100), 95503 (27/100), 95511 (27/100), 95514 (27/100), 95519 (27/100), 95521 (27/100). DLRadar also scores 95524, 95525, 95528, 95536, 95537, 95540, 95542, 95545 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.

DLRadar's composite for Humboldt 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.