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

Jackson County, Missouri sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 40 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading. The county spans 58 scored ZIP codes, averaging 29/100 composite distress.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 2.8% over the past year, at 20/100 phase confidence. At this stage of the cycle, the average masks the outliers as the ZIP scores below show.

At +2.8% YoY and 20/100 confidence, opportunity is parcel-specific well beyond the county average. Mid-range bank stress at 40/100 points to both signal sets in play here.

Top distress by ZIP runs 64014 (29/100), 64015 (29/100), 64016 (29/100), 64029 (29/100), 64030 (29/100), 64050 (29/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. Other tracked Jackson County ZIPs include 64052, 64053, 64054, 64055, 64056, 64057, 64058, 64063, 64064, 64065.

Underneath the scores, the Jackson County ZIPs on file run home values averaging roughly $235,396, below the US, 57% owner-occupancy, vacancy near 10.9%, a median household income near $73,393 (near the US norm), a median age of 36.6, a 14.4% poverty rate. These fundamentals frame the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.

Jackson County, Missouri's 29/100 average over 58 ZIPs says distress here is parcel-specific and not a county-wide play. A DLRadar subscription opens every Jackson County parcel: owner, mailing address, APN, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.

Because Jackson County, Missouri is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Jackson County against neighboring markets or the rest of Missouri on equal footing.

Approach Jackson County by rank rather than by average — the 29/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. The Jackson County figures are auditable line by line — county recorders and courts, FHFA price data, FDIC bank filings — with gaps left visible rather than filled by estimate.

Drilling in, Jackson County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 64014 (29/100), 64015 (29/100), 64016 (29/100), 64029 (29/100), 64030 (29/100), 64050 (29/100). DLRadar also scores 64052, 64053, 64054, 64055, 64056, 64057, 64058, 64063 and more 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 Jackson 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.