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

Carter County, Missouri is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. ZIP-level distress ranges from 31/100 at the top down to 18/100. On bank and credit headwind, Carter County scores 9/100. 5 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 22/100 distress.

In its peak phase, Carter County home prices rose 4.4% across the last year (phase confidence 29/100). On a market plateau, broad sweeps stop paying as the ZIP scores below show.

At +4.4% YoY and 29/100 confidence, the discount lives in outliers and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. A steady 9/100 bank reading puts the live signals on tax, code and ownership-change cases over REO.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Carter County are 63935 (31/100), 63941 (22/100), 63943 (21/100), 63965 (19/100), 63937 (18/100), each with its own full DLRadar report.

Underneath the scores, the Carter County ZIPs on file show median home values around $143,750 (below the national figure), an owner-occupied share of 69%, a 25.6% poverty rate, a median household income near $47,748 (below the US norm), residents with a median age around 41.3, vacancy near 28%. These fundamentals shape how much distress reaches the market and how fast it moves.

With a low 22/100 reading over 5 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition — work it parcel by parcel. Inside DLRadar, each Carter County property carries owner, mailing address, APN, a distress score and bank-exposure read.

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

For anyone buying in Carter County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 31/100. The Carter County scoring is reproducible from public sources alone, and DLRadar declines to estimate where the underlying record is incomplete.

Drilling in, Carter County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 63935 (31/100), 63941 (22/100), 63943 (21/100), 63965 (19/100), 63937 (18/100). 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 Carter 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.