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

For Dent County, Missouri, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. Lender pressure in Dent County registers 45/100 — a moderate bank-stress headwind. Coverage runs to 8 ZIPs across Dent County, a low 17/100 average. ZIP-level distress ranges from 20/100 at the top down to 13/100.

Currently peak, Dent County saw prices rise 4.4% year over year (phase confidence 29/100). At this stage of the cycle, blanket buying underperforms leaving the wins in individual deals.

At +4.4% YoY and 29/100 confidence, the wins are surgical — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. Mid-range bank stress at 45/100 means both signal sets in play here.

Highest scores land in 65542 (20/100), 65401 (19/100), 65462 (19/100), 63629 (17/100), 65440 (16/100), 65501 (14/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. Coverage extends to 65541, 65560 among others.

Underneath the scores, Dent County's tracked footprint show 18.3% of households below the poverty line, 19.6% of units sitting vacant, a median household income near $52,252 (below the US norm), median home values around $168,913 (below the national figure), residents with a median age around 48, 83% of homes owner-occupied. Income, equity and tenure like these frame the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

Net of it all, 17/100 over 8 ZIPs means Dent County is a screen-by-ZIP market — work it parcel by parcel. Inside DLRadar, each Dent County property carries owner, address and APN, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.

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

For an acquisition buyer, the practical use of Dent County, Missouri's scores is triage: the ZIPs and parcels carrying the highest composite are where motivated sellers and below-market exits concentrate, while lower-scored areas rarely justify the marketing spend. The Dent County read is rebuilt from public records as they post — no modeling fills the gaps — so what you see is what the documents support, refreshed on each ingest.

The ZIP breakdown for Dent County leads with 65542 (20/100), 65401 (19/100), 65462 (19/100), 63629 (17/100), 65440 (16/100), 65501 (14/100). DLRadar also scores 65541, 65560 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.

DLRadar's composite for Dent County blends several independent signals — foreclosure and pre-foreclosure filings, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, and the bank-stress headwind of the lenders operating locally — into one 0–100 score per ZIP, so a market can rank high on one axis and low on another.