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

Across Sonoma County, California, DLRadar grades every ZIP for foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress distress. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 20 to 24 out of 100. On bank and credit headwind, Sonoma County scores 56/100. The county spans 40 scored ZIP codes, averaging 21/100 composite distress.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 0.9% over twelve months, a 13/100-confidence read. With values leveling off, the average masks the outliers leaving the wins in individual deals.

Near the cycle top at +0.9% YoY (13/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific so the headline market won't hand it over. A moderate 56/100 lender headwind points to a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 94574 (24/100), ZIP 94922 (21/100), ZIP 94923 (21/100), ZIP 94928 (21/100), ZIP 94931 (21/100), ZIP 94951 (21/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. The breakdown continues through 94952, 94954, 94972, 95401, 95403, 95404, 95405, 95407, 95409, 95412 and more.

On the housing-and-income side, Sonoma County's tracked footprint show home values averaging roughly $887,218, above the US, poverty running near 8.1%, a median age of 47.3, a median household income near $104,453 (above the US norm), 65% owner-occupancy, a 19.4% vacancy rate. Income, equity and tenure like these drive which owners come under strain and how quickly stock clears.

Net of it all, 21/100 over 40 ZIPs means distress here is parcel-specific rather than a blanket buy. Inside DLRadar, each Sonoma County property carries owner, APN and address, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.

No county is too small to score: Sonoma County, California runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Sonoma County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in California.

The practical read on Sonoma County, California is a targeting one — find the ZIPs holding real financial pressure, then work the parcels underneath them. What supports the Sonoma County read is documentary: filings from the recorder and courts, federal price and bank data, and blanks wherever coverage is thin.

Drilling in, Sonoma County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 94574 (24/100), 94922 (21/100), 94923 (21/100), 94928 (21/100), 94931 (21/100), 94951 (21/100). DLRadar also scores 94952, 94954, 94972, 95401, 95403, 95404, 95405, 95407 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 Sonoma 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.