Bates County, MO: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Every ZIP in Bates County, Missouri carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. The county spans 13 scored ZIP codes, averaging 12/100 composite distress. ZIP-level distress ranges from 21/100 at the top down to 8/100. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 1/100 (low).

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 2.8% over twelve months, a 20/100-confidence read. With pricing topped out, broad sweeps stop paying leaving the wins in individual deals.

Near the cycle top at +2.8% YoY (20/100 confidence), the wins are surgical — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. Lender stress at 1/100 (low) points the search to tax delinquency, probate and liens.

Highest scores land in 64725 (21/100), 64742 (20/100), 64752 (16/100), 64779 (13/100), 64720 (11/100), 64722 (11/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. Also scored across the county: 64723, 64730, 64745, 64724, 64780, 64788, 64770.

Demographically, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Bates County report 76% owner-occupancy, residents with a median age around 43.7, typical home values near $178,717, a 20.4% vacancy rate, a 14.3% poverty rate, incomes around $59,676. Numbers like these shape the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.

With a minimal 12/100 reading over 13 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average and not a county-wide play. A DLRadar subscription opens every Bates County parcel: owner, mailing address, APN, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.

Whether Bates County, Missouri 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 Bates County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

The point of scoring Bates County, Missouri is to narrow it — the high-composite ZIPs carry the distress, and everything below them rarely repays the outreach cost. All of it is deterministic and auditable: Bates County's numbers come from county recorders, the courts, FHFA and FDIC, with nothing interpolated or guessed when a source is sparse.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Bates County are 64725 (21/100), 64742 (20/100), 64752 (16/100), 64779 (13/100), 64720 (11/100), 64722 (11/100). DLRadar also scores 64723, 64730, 64745, 64724, 64780, 64788, 64770 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.

Under Bates 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.