Garfield County, NE: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Garfield County, Nebraska is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. DLRadar scores 3 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 5/100. Individual Garfield County ZIPs score between 4 and 8 on the 0–100 composite. On bank and credit headwind, Garfield County scores 32/100.

Currently peak, Garfield County saw prices rise 3.3% year over year, at 24/100 phase confidence. At this stage of the cycle, distress turns selective — the edge is parcel by parcel.

At +3.3% YoY and 24/100 confidence, the wins are surgical well beyond the county average. A contained 32/100 bank headwind points the search to tax, code and ownership-change cases over REO.

The sharpest Garfield County readings come from 68637 (8/100), 68823 (4/100), 68862 (4/100) — open any for the parcel detail.

By the numbers, Garfield County's tracked footprint report median home values around $165,967 (below the national figure), an owner-occupied share of 76%, incomes around $60,762, a median age of 50.3, 33.2% of units sitting vacant, 10.8% of households below the poverty line. Numbers like these drive who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

At 5/100 composite over 3 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific for a disciplined buyer. Subscribers get each Garfield County parcel's owner, APN and address, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.

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

Approach Garfield County by rank rather than by average — the 5/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. What supports the Garfield County read is documentary: filings from the recorder and courts, federal price and bank data, and blanks wherever coverage is thin.

The ZIP breakdown for Garfield County leads with 68637 (8/100), 68823 (4/100), 68862 (4/100). 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.

Under Garfield 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.