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

DLRadar tracks property distress across Jay County, Indiana using verifiable public-record signals alone. The county's ZIP scores run from 13 up to 33/100. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 34/100. There are 9 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 18/100).

In its expansion phase, Jay County home prices rose 5.1% across the last year, a 30/100-confidence read. Even as prices climb, the laggards keep building so the laggard ZIPs are the opening.

Even appreciating at +5.1% YoY (30/100 confidence), liquidity improves for clean exits where the scoring still flags pressure. A contained 34/100 bank headwind puts the live signals on owner-driven distress more than bank stock.

By composite, 47320 (33/100), 47336 (22/100), 47390 (21/100), 47380 (20/100), 47326 (14/100), 47373 (14/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Coverage extends to 47369, 47371, 47381 among others.

By the numbers, Jay County's tracked footprint run residents with a median age around 41.5, 81% owner-occupancy, typical home values near $115,489, incomes around $55,085, poverty running near 16.6%, a 9.3% vacancy rate. Taken together, they shape who sells under pressure and how fast a deal moves.

Jay County, Indiana's 18/100 average over 9 ZIPs says Jay County rewards parcel-by-parcel work — work it parcel by parcel. Unlock Jay County to see every parcel's owner, mailing address, APN, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

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

Treat Jay County, Indiana as a ranked list, not a single market: the spread between its strongest and weakest ZIPs is where the acquisition margin actually sits. 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 Jay County data is thin.

The ZIP breakdown for Jay County leads with 47320 (33/100), 47336 (22/100), 47390 (21/100), 47380 (20/100), 47326 (14/100), 47373 (14/100). DLRadar also scores 47369, 47371, 47381 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.

DLRadar's composite for Jay 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.