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

Cherokee County, Kansas is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. ZIP-level distress ranges from 20/100 at the top down to 13/100. The county spans 13 scored ZIP codes, averaging 17/100 composite distress. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 37 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 2.0% over the past year and 1.5% down from peak, a 18/100-confidence read. With values leveling off, blanket buying underperforms — the edge is parcel by parcel.

At +2.0% YoY and 18/100 confidence, the discount lives in outliers and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. Mid-range bank stress at 37/100 means mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

Leading Cherokee County on distress: 66762 (20/100), 66724 (19/100), 66753 (19/100), 66781 (18/100), 66713 (17/100), 66725 (17/100). Further scored ZIPs: 66739, 66770, 66773, 66778, 66782, 67336, 67356.

On the housing-and-income side, Cherokee County's tracked footprint come in at poverty running near 14.5%, typical home values near $101,958, incomes around $51,930, an owner-occupied share of 75%, a 17.8% vacancy rate, a median age of 43.3. Income, equity and tenure like these signal how much distress reaches the market and how fast it moves.

All in at 17/100 over 13 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition — work it parcel by parcel. A DLRadar subscription opens every Cherokee County parcel: owner, address and APN, a distress score and bank-exposure read.

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

Treat Cherokee 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. Every Cherokee County signal ties to a named public source, and where the record is sparse DLRadar shows nothing instead of guessing.

Drilling in, Cherokee County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 66762 (20/100), 66724 (19/100), 66753 (19/100), 66781 (18/100), 66713 (17/100), 66725 (17/100). DLRadar also scores 66739, 66770, 66773, 66778, 66782, 67336, 67356 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 Cherokee 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.