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

Every ZIP in Wabash County, Indiana carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. 15 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 14/100 distress. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 50/100 (moderate). Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 12 to 19 out of 100.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 4.3% over the past year, a 26/100-confidence read. With values leveling off, the opportunity narrows leaving the wins in individual deals.

Near the cycle top at +4.3% YoY (26/100 confidence), selectivity rules — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. Mid-range bank stress at 50/100 points to a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

Top distress by ZIP runs 46982 (19/100), 46940 (14/100), 46941 (14/100), 46943 (14/100), 46946 (14/100), 46962 (14/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. Also scored across the county: 46974, 46980, 46984, 46990, 46992, 46911, 46926, 46970, 46702.

By the numbers, Wabash County's tracked footprint report home values averaging roughly $160,333, below the US, 83% of homes owner-occupied, residents with a median age around 44.4, poverty running near 9.2%, a median household income near $64,417 (below the US norm), vacancy near 11.1%. These fundamentals set up the depth of motivated supply and the pace of resale.

With a minimal 14/100 reading over 15 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific — work it parcel by parcel. Inside DLRadar, each Wabash County property carries owner, APN and address, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.

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

Used properly, Wabash County, Indiana's scores are a triage layer: they rank where motivated sellers cluster so acquisition spend goes to the ZIPs that convert rather than across Wabash County as a whole. The Wabash County read is rebuilt from public records as they post — no modeling fills the gaps — so what you see is what the documents support, refreshed on each ingest.

Drilling in, Wabash County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 46982 (19/100), 46940 (14/100), 46941 (14/100), 46943 (14/100), 46946 (14/100), 46962 (14/100). DLRadar also scores 46974, 46980, 46984, 46990, 46992, 46911, 46926, 46970 and more across the county. Every one of these is scored independently — a ZIP's composite reflects its own recorded distress, which is why the county average alone hides where the real pressure sits.

Under Wabash 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.