Blackford County, IN: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Blackford County, Indiana sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. On bank and credit headwind, Blackford County scores 39/100. Individual Blackford County ZIPs score between 4 and 32 on the 0–100 composite. The county spans 7 scored ZIP codes, averaging 18/100 composite distress.

The county market is in a expansion phase: home prices rose 5.1% over the past year, a 30/100-confidence read. Despite the upswing, a subset takes on water which the scoring still flags.

Even appreciating at +5.1% YoY (30/100 confidence), liquidity improves for clean exits — and a rising tide cleans up those exits. A moderate 39/100 lender headwind points to mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

Leading Blackford County on distress: 47338 (32/100), 46989 (25/100), 46952 (22/100), 47336 (22/100), 47369 (13/100), 47359 (6/100). Further scored ZIPs: 47348.

Underneath the scores, the Blackford County ZIPs on file run a median household income near $54,999 (below the US norm), an owner-occupied share of 77%, 13.4% of households below the poverty line, residents with a median age around 42.2, vacancy near 11.4%, median home values around $135,643 (below the national figure). Read together, they set up the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

Net of it all, 18/100 over 7 ZIPs means distress here is parcel-specific for a disciplined buyer. Subscribers get each Blackford County parcel's owner, mailing address, APN, a distress score and bank-exposure read.

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

The practical read on Blackford County, Indiana is a targeting one — find the ZIPs holding real financial pressure, then work the parcels underneath them. These Blackford County numbers come straight from public filings and refresh as new ones post; a missing source produces a blank field, never an estimate.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Blackford County are 47338 (32/100), 46989 (25/100), 46952 (22/100), 47336 (22/100), 47369 (13/100), 47359 (6/100). DLRadar also scores 47348 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.

The Blackford 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.