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

Nevada County, California is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. The county spans 12 scored ZIP codes, averaging 20/100 composite distress. Individual Nevada County ZIPs score between 18 and 24 on the 0–100 composite. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 40/100.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 0.4% over twelve months, at 12/100 phase confidence. At this stage of the cycle, the opportunity narrows leaving the wins in individual deals.

At +0.4% YoY and 12/100 confidence, selectivity rules and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. A moderate 40/100 lender headwind implies a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

Highest scores land in 95977 (24/100), 95602 (23/100), 95728 (23/100), 96161 (21/100), 95945 (18/100), 95946 (18/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. Coverage extends to 95949, 95959, 95960, 95975, 95986, 96111 among others.

Underneath the scores, Nevada County's tracked footprint show an owner-occupied share of 79%, household income averaging about $89,326, above the national median, typical home values near $629,692, 10.8% of households below the poverty line, a median age of 51.5, a 23% vacancy rate. Income, equity and tenure like these drive which owners come under strain and how quickly stock clears.

All in at 20/100 over 12 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific and not a county-wide play. A DLRadar subscription opens every Nevada County parcel: owner, APN and address, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.

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

The point of scoring Nevada County, California is to narrow it — the high-composite ZIPs carry the distress, and everything below them rarely repays the outreach cost. What supports the Nevada County read is documentary: filings from the recorder and courts, federal price and bank data, and blanks wherever coverage is thin.

Drilling in, Nevada County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 95977 (24/100), 95602 (23/100), 95728 (23/100), 96161 (21/100), 95945 (18/100), 95946 (18/100). DLRadar also scores 95949, 95959, 95960, 95975, 95986, 96111 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 Nevada 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.