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

For Jefferson County, Missouri, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. Lender pressure in Jefferson County registers 44/100 — a moderate bank-stress headwind. Individual Jefferson County ZIPs score between 20 and 32 on the 0–100 composite. There are 25 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 30/100).

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 3.9% over twelve months (phase confidence 26/100). At this stage of the cycle, the opportunity narrows as the ZIP scores below show.

At +3.9% YoY and 26/100 confidence, selectivity rules so the headline market won't hand it over. A mid-cycle 44/100 lender reading points to mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

Highest scores land in 63025 (32/100), 63026 (32/100), 63087 (32/100), 63628 (32/100), 63010 (31/100), 63012 (31/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. The breakdown continues through 63016, 63019, 63023, 63047, 63048, 63049, 63050, 63051, 63052, 63053 and more.

On the housing-and-income side, the Jefferson County ZIPs on file show household income averaging about $84,596, roughly at the national median, 8.7% of units sitting vacant, median home values around $245,917 (below the national figure), 83% of homes owner-occupied, poverty running near 7.8%, residents with a median age around 42.8. Income, equity and tenure like these signal how much distress reaches the market and how fast it moves.

All in at 30/100 over 25 ZIPs, Jefferson County rewards parcel-by-parcel work rather than a blanket buy. A DLRadar subscription opens every Jefferson County parcel: owner, address and APN, a per-parcel score, lender exposure and exit read.

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

Read Jefferson County, Missouri as a heat map for effort — the county's moderate composite of 30/100 hides wide ZIP-level variation, and the return comes from chasing the hot ZIPs, not the average. The Jefferson 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.

The ZIP breakdown for Jefferson County leads with 63025 (32/100), 63026 (32/100), 63087 (32/100), 63628 (32/100), 63010 (31/100), 63012 (31/100). DLRadar also scores 63016, 63019, 63023, 63047, 63048, 63049, 63050, 63051 and more 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.

The Jefferson 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.