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

Every ZIP in Tehama County, California carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 25 to 34 out of 100. Coverage runs to 17 ZIPs across Tehama County, a moderate 33/100 average. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 25/100.

In its peak phase, Tehama County home prices rose 0.4% across the last year, at 12/100 phase confidence. With pricing topped out, the average masks the outliers so screen ZIP by ZIP.

Near the cycle top at +0.4% YoY (12/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific well beyond the county average. A contained 25/100 bank headwind puts the live signals on tax delinquency, probate and liens.

By composite, 96021 (34/100), 96029 (34/100), 96035 (34/100), 96055 (34/100), 96061 (34/100), 96063 (34/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. The breakdown continues through 96074, 96075, 96078, 96080, 96090, 96092, 96022, 96059, 95973, 96076 and more.

Demographically, Tehama County's tracked footprint come in at a median household income near $74,510 (near the US norm), a 15.5% poverty rate, median home values around $309,854 (near the national figure), an owner-occupied share of 63%, 21.6% of units sitting vacant, a median age of 41.2. Income, equity and tenure like these shape which owners come under strain and how quickly stock clears.

At 33/100 composite over 17 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average rather than a blanket buy. Subscribers get each Tehama County parcel's owner, APN and address, a distress score and bank-exposure read.

Whether Tehama County, California carries heavy distress or only a handful of flagged parcels, every score here is built the same deterministic way — from recorded foreclosures, tax delinquency, liens and lender stress — so Tehama County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Read Tehama County, California as a heat map for effort — the county's moderate composite of 33/100 hides wide ZIP-level variation, and the return comes from chasing the hot ZIPs, not the average. The Tehama 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, Tehama County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 96021 (34/100), 96029 (34/100), 96035 (34/100), 96055 (34/100), 96061 (34/100), 96063 (34/100). DLRadar also scores 96074, 96075, 96078, 96080, 96090, 96092, 96022, 96059 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 Tehama 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.