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

For Jefferson County, Colorado, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. The county spans 34 scored ZIP codes, averaging 26/100 composite distress. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 57/100. The county's ZIP scores run from 10 up to 28/100.

In its contraction phase, Jefferson County home prices fell 1.0% across the last year, sitting 1.2% below its cycle peak (phase confidence 17/100). While the market slides, defaults edge upward which surfaces more motivated sellers.

Given Jefferson County's -1.0% YoY cooling (17/100 confidence), patience pays here and you underwrite to today's comps, not the peak. A mid-cycle 57/100 lender reading means mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

The sharpest Jefferson County readings come from 80002 (28/100), 80004 (28/100), 80005 (28/100), 80007 (28/100), 80033 (28/100), 80127 (28/100) — open any for the parcel detail. Coverage extends to 80128, 80214, 80215, 80226, 80228, 80232, 80401, 80419, 80425, 80433 among others.

Underneath the scores, Jefferson County's scored ZIPs run a median age of 42.3, a median household income near $110,617 (above the US norm), 75% owner-occupancy, a 6.5% poverty rate, typical home values near $652,045, a 7.3% vacancy rate. Numbers like these set up who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

At 26/100 composite over 34 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average where the ZIP scores point. Subscribers get each Jefferson County parcel's owner, address and APN, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.

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

In Jefferson 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 Jefferson County scoring is reproducible from public sources alone, and DLRadar declines to estimate where the underlying record is incomplete.

The ZIP breakdown for Jefferson County leads with 80002 (28/100), 80004 (28/100), 80005 (28/100), 80007 (28/100), 80033 (28/100), 80127 (28/100). DLRadar also scores 80128, 80214, 80215, 80226, 80228, 80232, 80401, 80419 and more across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

Under Jefferson 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.