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

Saguache County, Colorado is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. ZIP-level distress ranges from 13/100 at the top down to 6/100. The county spans 9 scored ZIP codes, averaging 9/100 composite distress. On bank and credit headwind, Saguache County scores 47/100.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 2.2% over the past year, a 18/100-confidence read. At this stage of the cycle, broad sweeps stop paying — the edge is parcel by parcel.

Saguache County's topped-out +2.2% YoY (18/100 confidence) means the wins are surgical and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. A moderate 47/100 lender headwind means mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

Top distress by ZIP runs 81230 (13/100), 81248 (11/100), 81125 (9/100), 81132 (9/100), 81131 (8/100), 81143 (8/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. The breakdown continues through 81149, 81155, 81136 and more.

Underneath the scores, Saguache County's scored ZIPs run 20.9% of units sitting vacant, residents with a median age around 47.8, household income averaging about $63,227, below the national median, an owner-occupied share of 70%, poverty running near 12.3%, typical home values near $299,288. Numbers like these frame the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.

Net of it all, 9/100 over 9 ZIPs means the opportunity hides below the average — work it parcel by parcel. Inside DLRadar, each Saguache County property carries owner and contact detail, APN, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.

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

Scores in Saguache County, Colorado exist to concentrate effort: a handful of ZIPs hold most of the distress, and the rest seldom justify the acquisition cost. The Saguache 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.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Saguache County are 81230 (13/100), 81248 (11/100), 81125 (9/100), 81132 (9/100), 81131 (8/100), 81143 (8/100). DLRadar also scores 81149, 81155, 81136 across the county. 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 Saguache 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.