Butler County, KS: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Every ZIP in Butler County, Kansas carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. There are 20 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 30/100). The county's lending-headwind score sits at 72/100 (elevated). The county's ZIP scores run from 20 up to 33/100.

The county market is in a neutral phase: home prices rose 4.4% over the past year, a 31/100-confidence read. With values leveling off, blanket buying underperforms — the edge is parcel by parcel.

With Butler County flat at +4.4% YoY (31/100 confidence), the wins are surgical so the headline market won't hand it over. Bank stress at 72/100 favors patient capital: expect more lender-driven inventory soon.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Butler County are 66842 (33/100), 67002 (33/100), 67010 (33/100), 67012 (33/100), 67041 (33/100), 67042 (33/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Also scored across the county: 67074, 67123, 67132, 67144, 67039, 67072, 67133, 67017, 67154, 67008.

Underneath the scores, the Butler County ZIPs on file run poverty running near 9.8%, 81% owner-occupancy, home values averaging roughly $185,933, below the US, a median age of 41.2, 9.8% of units sitting vacant, incomes around $85,080. Income, equity and tenure like these frame both the distress on offer and the exit velocity.

Butler County, Kansas's 30/100 average over 20 ZIPs says the edge is selective acquisition and not a county-wide play. A DLRadar subscription opens every Butler County parcel: owner, mailing address, APN, a distress reading, the lender on title and exit timing.

Whether Butler County, Kansas 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 Butler County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Butler County, Kansas is best worked from the top of the score down; blanket outreach across Butler County dilutes effort that the ZIP-level numbers would have focused. All Butler County inputs are public record — recorder, court, FHFA and FDIC — and the score is rebuilt on ingest rather than modelled forward.

The ZIP breakdown for Butler County leads with 66842 (33/100), 67002 (33/100), 67010 (33/100), 67012 (33/100), 67041 (33/100), 67042 (33/100). DLRadar also scores 67074, 67123, 67132, 67144, 67039, 67072, 67133, 67017 and more 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 Butler 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.