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

Lyon County, Kansas sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. On bank and credit headwind, Lyon County scores 64/100, a stressed reading. The county spans 12 scored ZIP codes, averaging 17/100 composite distress. ZIP-level distress ranges from 22/100 at the top down to 13/100.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 3.5% over the past year, at 23/100 phase confidence. With pricing topped out, broad sweeps stop paying leaving the wins in individual deals.

At +3.5% YoY and 23/100 confidence, the discount lives in outliers and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. Its 64/100 lender headwind is a buyer tailwind: short sales and foreclosures accelerate.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 66523 (22/100), ZIP 66413 (21/100), ZIP 66801 (17/100), ZIP 66830 (17/100), ZIP 66833 (17/100), ZIP 66835 (17/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. Further scored ZIPs: 66868, 66854, 66864, 66865, 66860, 66846.

Underneath the scores, the Lyon County ZIPs on file show poverty running near 8.4%, median home values around $124,617 (below the national figure), incomes around $63,154, 78% owner-occupancy, a 12.7% vacancy rate, residents with a median age around 40.7. Read together, they signal the depth of motivated supply and the pace of resale.

At 17/100 composite over 12 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average and not a county-wide play. Inside DLRadar, each Lyon County property carries owner, address and APN, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.

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

For anyone buying in Lyon County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 22/100. Provenance for Lyon County is explicit: recorders and courts for filings, FHFA for prices, FDIC for lenders. No interpolation, no synthetic values.

The ZIP breakdown for Lyon County leads with 66523 (22/100), 66413 (21/100), 66801 (17/100), 66830 (17/100), 66833 (17/100), 66835 (17/100). DLRadar also scores 66868, 66854, 66864, 66865, 66860, 66846 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.

DLRadar's composite for Lyon 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.