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

Every ZIP in Ellis County, Kansas carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 47/100 (moderate). Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 15 to 20 out of 100. There are 12 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 19/100).

In its peak phase, Ellis County home prices rose 3.5% across the last year (phase confidence 23/100). With values leveling off, broad sweeps stop paying so screen ZIP by ZIP.

Near the cycle top at +3.5% YoY (23/100 confidence), the discount lives in outliers so the headline market won't hand it over. Mid-range bank stress at 47/100 means both signal sets in play here.

Top distress by ZIP runs 67601 (20/100), 67627 (20/100), 67660 (20/100), 67667 (20/100), 67671 (20/100), 67674 (20/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. Coverage extends to 67565, 67556, 67640, 67651, 67663, 67637 among others.

By the numbers, Ellis County's tracked footprint run incomes around $61,377, vacancy near 15.8%, 74% owner-occupancy, a median age of 38.8, a 17.3% poverty rate, median home values around $142,883 (below the national figure). Numbers like these frame both the distress on offer and the exit velocity.

With a low 19/100 reading over 12 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific where the ZIP scores point. Inside DLRadar, each Ellis County property carries owner and contact detail, APN, score, bank exposure and an exit-velocity estimate.

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

Treat Ellis 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. All of it is deterministic and auditable: Ellis County's numbers come from county recorders, the courts, FHFA and FDIC, with nothing interpolated or guessed when a source is sparse.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Ellis County are 67601 (20/100), 67627 (20/100), 67660 (20/100), 67667 (20/100), 67671 (20/100), 67674 (20/100). DLRadar also scores 67565, 67556, 67640, 67651, 67663, 67637 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.

Under Ellis 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.