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

Every ZIP in Brown County, Indiana carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. Coverage runs to 10 ZIPs across Brown County, a low 23/100 average. Individual Brown County ZIPs score between 17 and 31 on the 0–100 composite. On bank and credit headwind, Brown County scores 49/100.

Currently peak, Brown County saw prices rise 3.1% year over year (phase confidence 24/100). On a market plateau, broad sweeps stop paying with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

At +3.1% YoY and 24/100 confidence, the discount lives in outliers — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. A moderate 49/100 lender headwind points to mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

Highest scores land in 47201 (31/100), 47401 (28/100), 47468 (27/100), 46160 (25/100), 46181 (25/100), 46164 (21/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. Other tracked Brown County ZIPs include 47274, 47448, 47235, 47435.

Underneath the scores, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Brown County come in at a 10% poverty rate, an owner-occupied share of 82%, median home values around $267,467 (below the national figure), 13.6% of units sitting vacant, residents with a median age around 47.6, a median household income near $74,559 (near the US norm). Numbers like these frame the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

With a low 23/100 reading over 10 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific rather than a blanket buy. Subscribers get each Brown County parcel's owner, address and APN, a distress score plus a funding-to-closing path.

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

In Brown County, Indiana, 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. 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 Brown County data is thin.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Brown County are 47201 (31/100), 47401 (28/100), 47468 (27/100), 46160 (25/100), 46181 (25/100), 46164 (21/100). DLRadar also scores 47274, 47448, 47235, 47435 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 Brown 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.