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

For Chariton County, Missouri, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. The county spans 12 scored ZIP codes, averaging 14/100 composite distress. The county's ZIP scores run from 10 up to 18/100. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 45 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 4.4% over the past year (phase confidence 29/100). This late in the run, blanket buying underperforms as the ZIP scores below show.

Near the cycle top at +4.4% YoY (29/100 confidence), the wins are surgical so the headline market won't hand it over. A mid-cycle 45/100 lender reading points to both signal sets in play here.

By composite, 65254 (18/100), 64628 (14/100), 64660 (14/100), 64676 (14/100), 64681 (14/100), 65236 (14/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Further scored ZIPs: 65246, 65261, 65281, 65286, 64658, 63558.

Profile-wise, Chariton County's tracked footprint run home values averaging roughly $132,773, below the US, 83% owner-occupancy, a 13.8% poverty rate, a median age of 48.6, household income averaging about $61,606, below the national median, a 31.8% vacancy rate. Numbers like these frame who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

All in at 14/100 over 12 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific for a disciplined buyer. A DLRadar subscription opens every Chariton County parcel: owner, address and APN, a distress score and bank-exposure read.

Whether Chariton 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 Chariton County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Treat Chariton County, Missouri as a ranked list, not a single market: the spread between its strongest and weakest ZIPs is where the acquisition margin actually sits. All of it is deterministic and auditable: Chariton County's numbers come from county recorders, the courts, FHFA and FDIC, with nothing interpolated or guessed when a source is sparse.

Drilling in, Chariton County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 65254 (18/100), 64628 (14/100), 64660 (14/100), 64676 (14/100), 64681 (14/100), 65236 (14/100). DLRadar also scores 65246, 65261, 65281, 65286, 64658, 63558 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 Chariton 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.