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

Every ZIP in Benton County, Missouri carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. ZIP-level distress ranges from 19/100 at the top down to 8/100. Coverage runs to 13 ZIPs across Benton County, a low 15/100 average. On bank and credit headwind, Benton County scores 52/100.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 4.4% over the past year, at 29/100 phase confidence. On a market plateau, broad sweeps stop paying with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

Benton County's topped-out +4.4% YoY (29/100 confidence) means the wins are surgical well beyond the county average. A moderate 52/100 lender headwind means a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

Top distress by ZIP runs 65325 (19/100), 65338 (19/100), 65355 (19/100), 65360 (17/100), 65779 (17/100), 65326 (16/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. Also scored across the county: 65345, 65335, 65735, 65078, 65634, 64776, 64735.

Underneath the scores, the Benton County ZIPs on file run 30.3% of units sitting vacant, 81% of homes owner-occupied, household income averaging about $52,063, below the national median, a median age of 48.7, a 17.3% poverty rate, typical home values near $208,400. Read together, they signal who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

With a low 15/100 reading over 13 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average where the ZIP scores point. Unlock Benton County to see every parcel's owner, address and APN, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.

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

Read Benton County, Missouri as a heat map for effort — the county's low composite of 15/100 hides wide ZIP-level variation, and the return comes from chasing the hot ZIPs, not the average. Provenance for Benton County is explicit: recorders and courts for filings, FHFA for prices, FDIC for lenders. No interpolation, no synthetic values.

Drilling in, Benton County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 65325 (19/100), 65338 (19/100), 65355 (19/100), 65360 (17/100), 65779 (17/100), 65326 (16/100). DLRadar also scores 65345, 65335, 65735, 65078, 65634, 64776, 64735 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.

Under Benton 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.