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

Across Osage County, Kansas, DLRadar grades every ZIP for foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress distress. The county spans 15 scored ZIP codes, averaging 22/100 composite distress. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 73 on a 0–100 scale, a elevated reading. Individual Osage County ZIPs score between 17 and 25 on the 0–100 composite.

In its expansion phase, Osage County home prices rose 5.1% across the last year, a 32/100-confidence read. Even as prices climb, a subset takes on water even as the headline looks strong.

With growth of +5.1% YoY (32/100 confidence), liquidity improves for clean exits which speeds resale of distressed buys. An elevated 73/100 reading favors patient capital: expect more lender-driven inventory soon.

Leading Osage County on distress: 66402 (25/100), 66546 (25/100), 66409 (24/100), 66414 (22/100), 66451 (22/100), 66510 (22/100). Further scored ZIPs: 66523, 66524, 66528, 66537, 66543, 66413, 66856, 66871, 66868.

On the housing-and-income side, Osage County's tracked footprint come in at 9% of households below the poverty line, an owner-occupied share of 85%, median home values around $179,421 (below the national figure), household income averaging about $77,669, roughly at the national median, a median age of 45.2, vacancy near 10.2%. Taken together, they set up who sells under pressure and how fast a deal moves.

With a low 22/100 reading over 15 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific for a disciplined buyer. Unlock Osage County to see every parcel's owner, address and APN, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.

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

For an acquisition buyer, the practical use of Osage 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. The Osage County figures are auditable line by line — county recorders and courts, FHFA price data, FDIC bank filings — with gaps left visible rather than filled by estimate.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Osage County are 66402 (25/100), 66546 (25/100), 66409 (24/100), 66414 (22/100), 66451 (22/100), 66510 (22/100). DLRadar also scores 66523, 66524, 66528, 66537, 66543, 66413, 66856, 66871 and more 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.

The Osage County score is not a single measure but a composite: foreclosure activity, mortgage and tax-lien stress, and local lender headwind each feed it, which is why understanding the components matters as much as the headline number.