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

DLRadar tracks property distress across Jewell County, Kansas using verifiable public-record signals alone. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 4 to 18 out of 100. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 81/100 — elevated, a sign of lender stress locally. DLRadar scores 14 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 8/100.

In its peak phase, Jewell County home prices rose 2.9% across the last year (phase confidence 25/100). On a market plateau, the opportunity narrows as the ZIP scores below show.

Near the cycle top at +2.9% YoY (25/100 confidence), the discount lives in outliers so the headline market won't hand it over. Its 81/100 lender headwind is a buyer tailwind: banks under pressure move REO faster.

Highest scores land in 68978 (18/100), 67420 (9/100), 67430 (9/100), 67446 (9/100), 66936 (8/100), 66941 (8/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. Further scored ZIPs: 66942, 66949, 66952, 66956, 66963, 66970, 66948, 66939.

Profile-wise, Jewell County's scored ZIPs come in at home values averaging roughly $111,540, below the US, a median age of 48.7, 28.4% of units sitting vacant, a median household income near $60,642 (below the US norm), an owner-occupied share of 79%, a 11.1% poverty rate. Taken together, they set up who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

At 8/100 composite over 14 ZIPs, Jewell County is a screen-by-ZIP market for a disciplined buyer. Subscribers get each Jewell County parcel's owner, APN and address, a distress score and bank-exposure read.

Whether Jewell 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 Jewell County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

For an acquisition buyer, the practical use of Jewell County, Kansas's scores is triage: the ZIPs and parcels carrying the highest composite are where motivated sellers and below-market exits concentrate, while lower-scored areas rarely justify the marketing spend. All Jewell 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 Jewell County leads with 68978 (18/100), 67420 (9/100), 67430 (9/100), 67446 (9/100), 66936 (8/100), 66941 (8/100). DLRadar also scores 66942, 66949, 66952, 66956, 66963, 66970, 66948, 66939 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.

Under Jewell 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.