Washington County, MN: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Washington County, Minnesota sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. The county spans 19 scored ZIP codes, averaging 23/100 composite distress. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 51/100 (moderate). Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 18 to 24 out of 100.

Currently peak, Washington County saw prices rise 2.4% year over year (phase confidence 16/100). With pricing topped out, the average masks the outliers — the edge is parcel by parcel.

Washington County's topped-out +2.4% YoY (16/100 confidence) means selectivity rules and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. A moderate 51/100 lender headwind points to both signal sets in play here.

Leading Washington County on distress: 55001 (24/100), 55003 (24/100), 55016 (24/100), 55042 (24/100), 55043 (24/100), 55047 (24/100). Coverage extends to 55055, 55071, 55082, 55090, 55115, 55125, 55128, 55129, 55033, 55038 among others.

On the housing-and-income side, the Washington County ZIPs on file show median home values around $427,589 (above the national figure), residents with a median age around 42.5, an owner-occupied share of 84%, a median household income near $115,274 (above the US norm), poverty running near 5.1%, 4.2% of units sitting vacant. Read together, they drive the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.

With a low 23/100 reading over 19 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific and not a county-wide play. Subscribers get each Washington County parcel's owner, address and APN, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.

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

Read Washington County, Minnesota as a heat map for effort — the county's low composite of 23/100 hides wide ZIP-level variation, and the return comes from chasing the hot ZIPs, not the average. Every Washington County signal ties to a named public source, and where the record is sparse DLRadar shows nothing instead of guessing.

The ZIP breakdown for Washington County leads with 55001 (24/100), 55003 (24/100), 55016 (24/100), 55042 (24/100), 55043 (24/100), 55047 (24/100). DLRadar also scores 55055, 55071, 55082, 55090, 55115, 55125, 55128, 55129 and more 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 Washington 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.