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

Rice County, Kansas is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. The county spans 13 scored ZIP codes, averaging 15/100 composite distress. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 11 to 23 out of 100. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 55 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading.

In its peak phase, Rice County home prices rose 2.9% across the last year, a 25/100-confidence read. At this stage of the cycle, the average masks the outliers with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

At +2.9% YoY and 25/100 confidence, the wins are surgical and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. A mid-cycle 55/100 lender reading implies mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Rice County are 67525 (23/100), 67502 (22/100), 67526 (20/100), 67579 (17/100), 67546 (15/100), 67491 (14/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Also scored across the county: 67512, 67427, 67457, 67524, 67554, 67573, 67444.

Demographically, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Rice County show 17.8% of units sitting vacant, an owner-occupied share of 80%, typical home values near $116,936, residents with a median age around 45.7, 9.8% of households below the poverty line, a median household income near $70,016 (near the US norm). Numbers like these drive the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.

Rice County, Kansas's 15/100 average over 13 ZIPs says the edge is selective acquisition and not a county-wide play. Subscribers get each Rice County parcel's owner, APN and address, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.

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

Approach Rice County by rank rather than by average — the 15/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. All of it is deterministic and auditable: Rice County's numbers come from county recorders, the courts, FHFA and FDIC, with nothing interpolated or guessed when a source is sparse.

Drilling in, Rice County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 67525 (23/100), 67502 (22/100), 67526 (20/100), 67579 (17/100), 67546 (15/100), 67491 (14/100). DLRadar also scores 67512, 67427, 67457, 67524, 67554, 67573, 67444 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.

The Rice 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.