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

Chase County, Kansas is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. The county spans 11 scored ZIP codes, averaging 18/100 composite distress. On bank and credit headwind, Chase County scores 59/100. The county's ZIP scores run from 7 up to 25/100.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 3.5% over the past year, a 23/100-confidence read. With pricing topped out, broad sweeps stop paying as the ZIP scores below show.

Chase County's topped-out +3.5% YoY (23/100 confidence) means the wins are surgical — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. A mid-cycle 59/100 lender reading points to a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Chase County are 66840 (25/100), 66845 (21/100), 66850 (21/100), 66862 (21/100), 66869 (21/100), 66843 (20/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Also scored across the county: 66801, 66865, 66846, 66838, 66858.

By the numbers, Chase County's tracked footprint run home values averaging roughly $124,064, below the US, household income averaging about $59,474, below the national median, 77% of homes owner-occupied, residents with a median age around 46.3, a 13.5% vacancy rate, a 14.2% poverty rate. Income, equity and tenure like these signal the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

With a low 18/100 reading over 11 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average — work it parcel by parcel. Inside DLRadar, each Chase County property carries owner, address and APN, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.

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

Treat Chase County, Kansas as a ranked list, not a single market: the spread between its strongest and weakest ZIPs is where the acquisition margin actually sits. Nothing in the Chase County read is modelled: recorder and court filings drive foreclosure and lien signals, FHFA sets the price cycle, FDIC the lender stress, and a thin source stays blank.

The ZIP breakdown for Chase County leads with 66840 (25/100), 66845 (21/100), 66850 (21/100), 66862 (21/100), 66869 (21/100), 66843 (20/100). DLRadar also scores 66801, 66865, 66846, 66838, 66858 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.

The Chase County score is not a single measure but a composite: foreclosure activity, mortgage and tax-lien stress, and local lender headwind each feed it, which is why understanding the components matters as much as the headline number.