Custer County, CO: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Custer County, Colorado sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. The county's ZIP scores run from 13 up to 19/100. DLRadar scores 4 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 16/100. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 63/100 — elevated, a sign of lender stress locally.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 2.2% over twelve months, at 18/100 phase confidence. On a market plateau, the opportunity narrows so screen ZIP by ZIP.

At +2.2% YoY and 18/100 confidence, the wins are surgical so the headline market won't hand it over. Its 63/100 lender headwind favors patient capital: expect more lender-driven inventory soon.

Highest scores land in 81069 (19/100), 81226 (15/100), 81253 (15/100), 81252 (13/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown.

By the numbers, the Custer County ZIPs on file run household income averaging about $67,988, below the national median, poverty running near 12.9%, a median age of 54.1, home values averaging roughly $327,600, in line with the US, a 22.1% vacancy rate, 84% owner-occupancy. Numbers like these frame how much distress reaches the market and how fast it moves.

Net of it all, 16/100 over 4 ZIPs means the edge is selective acquisition rather than a blanket buy. Inside DLRadar, each Custer County property carries owner, APN and address, a distress reading, the lender on title and exit timing.

Whether Custer County, Colorado 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 Custer County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

In Custer County, Colorado, the scores are a targeting tool first: they tell you which ZIPs hold the distress and which owners are most likely under real financial pressure, so limited acquisition effort lands where it converts. The Custer County read is rebuilt from public records as they post — no modeling fills the gaps — so what you see is what the documents support, refreshed on each ingest.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Custer County are 81069 (19/100), 81226 (15/100), 81253 (15/100), 81252 (13/100). Each code carries its own composite built from that ZIP's foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien and lender signals, so two neighboring ZIPs can diverge sharply even inside one county.

DLRadar's composite for Custer 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.