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

Wells County, Indiana is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. The county spans 17 scored ZIP codes, averaging 12/100 composite distress. ZIP-level distress ranges from 25/100 at the top down to 6/100. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 49/100 (moderate).

The neutral-phase county posted home values that rose 4.2% over twelve months, at 22/100 phase confidence. This late in the run, blanket buying underperforms — the edge is parcel by parcel.

At +4.2% YoY and 22/100 confidence, the wins are surgical — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. Mid-range bank stress at 49/100 means mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

Highest scores land in 46798 (25/100), 46952 (22/100), 46991 (22/100), 46783 (16/100), 46799 (16/100), 46740 (15/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. Other tracked Wells County ZIPs include 46792, 46777, 46714, 46770, 46731, 46759, 46766, 46778, 46781, 46791.

Underneath the scores, Wells County's tracked footprint come in at typical home values near $189,453, 83% owner-occupancy, a 9.2% poverty rate, residents with a median age around 40.6, a 6.3% vacancy rate, incomes around $67,649. Read together, they frame who sells under pressure and how fast a deal moves.

Net of it all, 12/100 over 17 ZIPs means the opportunity hides below the average rather than a blanket buy. Subscribers get each Wells County parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.

Whether Wells County, Indiana carries heavy distress or only a handful of flagged parcels, every score here is built the same deterministic way — from recorded foreclosures, tax delinquency, liens and lender stress — so Wells County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Treat Wells 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. All Wells County inputs are public record — recorder, court, FHFA and FDIC — and the score is rebuilt on ingest rather than modelled forward.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Wells County are 46798 (25/100), 46952 (22/100), 46991 (22/100), 46783 (16/100), 46799 (16/100), 46740 (15/100). DLRadar also scores 46792, 46777, 46714, 46770, 46731, 46759, 46766, 46778 and more 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.

DLRadar's composite for Wells 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.