Howard County, IN: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
DLRadar tracks property distress across Howard County, Indiana using verifiable public-record signals alone. There are 12 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 17/100). The county's lending-headwind score sits at 52/100 (moderate). ZIP-level distress ranges from 24/100 at the top down to 14/100.
Currently expansion, Howard County saw prices rise 7.2% year over year, a 50/100-confidence read. Even as prices climb, a subset takes on water even as the headline looks strong.
Even appreciating at +7.2% YoY (50/100 confidence), well-bought parcels resell faster which speeds resale of distressed buys. A moderate 52/100 lender headwind means mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.
By composite, 46928 (24/100), 46919 (18/100), 46932 (17/100), 46068 (16/100), 46076 (16/100), 46901 (16/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Also scored across the county: 46902, 46936, 46937, 46965, 46979, 46929.
Profile-wise, the Howard County ZIPs on file come in at typical home values near $173,290, 7% of units sitting vacant, an owner-occupied share of 76%, a 8.3% poverty rate, residents with a median age around 43, a median household income near $64,824 (below the US norm). Numbers like these signal the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.
Howard County, Indiana's 17/100 average over 12 ZIPs says Howard County rewards parcel-by-parcel work — work it parcel by parcel. Unlock Howard County to see every parcel's owner, address and APN, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.
No county is too small to score: Howard County, Indiana runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Howard County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in Indiana.
Approach Howard County by rank rather than by average — the 17/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. Nothing in the Howard 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.
The ZIP breakdown for Howard County leads with 46928 (24/100), 46919 (18/100), 46932 (17/100), 46068 (16/100), 46076 (16/100), 46901 (16/100). DLRadar also scores 46902, 46936, 46937, 46965, 46979, 46929 across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.
Under Howard County's headline composite sit distinct layers — recorded foreclosures, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind — each scored separately before they roll up, so the same total can describe very different markets.
| ZIP | State | Distress score | 🔒 Owner | 🔒 Property Address | 🔒 Parcel ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 46928 | IN | 24 | |||
| 46919 | IN | 18 | |||
| 46932 | IN | 17 | |||
| 46068 | IN | 16 | |||
| 46076 | IN | 16 | |||
| 46901 | IN | 16 | |||
| 46902 | IN | 16 | |||
| 46936 | IN | 16 |
Where distress concentrates in Howard County
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