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

DLRadar tracks property distress across Clay County, Kansas using verifiable public-record signals alone. Coverage runs to 10 ZIPs across Clay County, a minimal 9/100 average. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 65/100 (elevated). Individual Clay County ZIPs score between 3 and 17 on the 0–100 composite.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 2.9% over the past year, a 25/100-confidence read. With pricing topped out, the average masks the outliers — the edge is parcel by parcel.

With Clay County flat at +2.9% YoY (25/100 confidence), selectivity rules — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. An elevated 65/100 reading signals what's coming: short sales and foreclosures accelerate.

Leading Clay County on distress: 66962 (17/100), 67410 (14/100), 67447 (13/100), 66937 (11/100), 67466 (8/100), 67487 (7/100). The breakdown continues through 66938, 67458, 67432, 67468 and more.

On the housing-and-income side, Clay County's scored ZIPs report median home values around $150,400 (below the national figure), an owner-occupied share of 81%, a 13.8% poverty rate, residents with a median age around 42.3, household income averaging about $65,262, below the national median, a 14.3% vacancy rate. Numbers like these shape which owners come under strain and how quickly stock clears.

At 9/100 composite over 10 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average and not a county-wide play. Inside DLRadar, each Clay County property carries owner, APN and address, a distress score and bank-exposure read.

The distress read for Clay County, Kansas is refreshed as new public records post and uses the same methodology coast to coast, so Clay County stays directly comparable to any other market you track.

The way to work Clay County, Kansas is top-down — start with the highest-scoring ZIPs (up to 17/100 here), then drill to the parcels driving those numbers, rather than blanketing Clay County with undifferentiated outreach. The Clay 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, Clay County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 66962 (17/100), 67410 (14/100), 67447 (13/100), 66937 (11/100), 67466 (8/100), 67487 (7/100). DLRadar also scores 66938, 67458, 67432, 67468 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.

DLRadar's composite for Clay 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.