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

Jefferson County, Indiana is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. ZIP-level distress ranges from 30/100 at the top down to 12/100. Lender pressure in Jefferson County registers 29/100 — a contained bank-stress headwind. The county spans 11 scored ZIP codes, averaging 22/100 composite distress.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 4.3% over the past year, a 26/100-confidence read. With pricing topped out, distress turns selective with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

Near the cycle top at +4.3% YoY (26/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific well beyond the county average. A contained 29/100 bank headwind puts the live signals on tax delinquency, probate and liens.

The sharpest Jefferson County readings come from 47243 (30/100), 47250 (28/100), 47147 (26/100), 47224 (26/100), 47230 (26/100), 47231 (23/100) — open any for the parcel detail. The breakdown continues through 47138, 47043, 47170, 47227, 47270 and more.

Profile-wise, Jefferson County's tracked footprint run an owner-occupied share of 79%, a 10.2% vacancy rate, home values averaging roughly $185,060, below the US, a 14% poverty rate, a median age of 41.3, a median household income near $62,349 (below the US norm). Numbers like these set up which owners come under strain and how quickly stock clears.

Jefferson County, Indiana's 22/100 average over 11 ZIPs says the edge is selective acquisition — work it parcel by parcel. Subscribers get each Jefferson County parcel's owner, mailing address, APN, score, bank exposure and an exit-velocity estimate.

No county is too small to score: Jefferson County, Indiana runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Jefferson County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in Indiana.

Approach Jefferson County by rank rather than by average — the 22/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. The Jefferson County scoring is reproducible from public sources alone, and DLRadar declines to estimate where the underlying record is incomplete.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Jefferson County are 47243 (30/100), 47250 (28/100), 47147 (26/100), 47224 (26/100), 47230 (26/100), 47231 (23/100). DLRadar also scores 47138, 47043, 47170, 47227, 47270 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.

Under Jefferson 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.