Rio Grande County, CO: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Rio Grande County, Colorado sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 42/100. ZIP-level distress ranges from 9/100 at the top down to 8/100. 4 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 9/100 distress.

Currently peak, Rio Grande County saw prices rise 2.2% year over year, a 18/100-confidence read. At this stage of the cycle, distress turns selective so screen ZIP by ZIP.

With Rio Grande County flat at +2.2% YoY (18/100 confidence), selectivity rules well beyond the county average. Mid-range bank stress at 42/100 means a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

Leading Rio Grande County on distress: 81125 (9/100), 81132 (9/100), 81144 (8/100), 81154 (8/100).

Profile-wise, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Rio Grande County show household income averaging about $59,682, below the national median, a 24.2% vacancy rate, 14.2% of households below the poverty line, median home values around $275,925 (below the national figure), residents with a median age around 45, 71% owner-occupancy. Income, equity and tenure like these frame how much distress reaches the market and how fast it moves.

Net of it all, 9/100 over 4 ZIPs means distress here is parcel-specific and not a county-wide play. Inside DLRadar, each Rio Grande County property carries owner, mailing address, APN, a distress score plus a funding-to-closing path.

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

Scores in Rio Grande County, Colorado exist to concentrate effort: a handful of ZIPs hold most of the distress, and the rest seldom justify the acquisition cost. Nothing in the Rio Grande County read is modelled: recorder and court filings drive foreclosure and lien signals, FHFA sets the price cycle, FDIC the lender stress, and a thin source stays blank.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Rio Grande County are 81125 (9/100), 81132 (9/100), 81144 (8/100), 81154 (8/100). 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.

The Rio Grande County score is not a single measure but a composite: foreclosure activity, mortgage and tax-lien stress, and local lender headwind each feed it, which is why understanding the components matters as much as the headline number.