Kauai County, HI: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Every ZIP in Kauai County, Hawaii carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 85/100 — elevated, a sign of lender stress locally. Coverage runs to 16 ZIPs across Kauai County, a moderate 32/100 average.

The county market is in a expansion phase: home prices rose 7.1% over the past year, at 61/100 phase confidence. Under a rising market, specific ZIPs still slip where the composite stays elevated.

Even appreciating at +7.1% YoY (61/100 confidence), liquidity improves for clean exits where the scoring still flags pressure. An elevated 85/100 reading signals what's coming: short sales and foreclosures accelerate.

Top distress by ZIP runs 96703 (32/100), 96705 (32/100), 96714 (32/100), 96716 (32/100), 96722 (32/100), 96741 (32/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. Further scored ZIPs: 96746, 96747, 96751, 96752, 96754, 96756, 96765, 96766, 96769, 96796.

On the housing-and-income side, Kauai County's scored ZIPs run median home values around $908,854 (above the national figure), 55% of homes owner-occupied, a median age of 42, incomes around $94,825, a 8.5% poverty rate, 21.9% of units sitting vacant. Income, equity and tenure like these drive how much distress reaches the market and how fast it moves.

All in at 32/100 over 16 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific and not a county-wide play. Unlock Kauai County to see every parcel's owner, APN and address, a distress score plus a funding-to-closing path.

Whether Kauai County, Hawaii 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 Kauai County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Kauai County, Hawaii is best worked from the top of the score down; blanket outreach across Kauai County dilutes effort that the ZIP-level numbers would have focused. Every figure traces to a public federal or county source — recorder and court records for foreclosure and liens, FHFA for the price cycle, FDIC for lender stress — and DLRadar leaves a signal blank rather than estimating where Kauai County data is thin.

Drilling in, Kauai County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 96703 (32/100), 96705 (32/100), 96714 (32/100), 96716 (32/100), 96722 (32/100), 96741 (32/100). DLRadar also scores 96746, 96747, 96751, 96752, 96754, 96756, 96765, 96766 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.

The Kauai 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.