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

Harlan County, Nebraska is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. The county's ZIP scores run from 14 up to 17/100. DLRadar scores 8 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 16/100. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 0 on a 0–100 scale, a low reading.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 3.3% over the past year (phase confidence 24/100). This late in the run, the average masks the outliers as the ZIP scores below show.

With Harlan County flat at +3.3% YoY (24/100 confidence), the discount lives in outliers well beyond the county average. A low 0/100 bank headwind favors owner-driven distress more than bank stock.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 68949 (17/100), ZIP 68977 (17/100), ZIP 68967 (16/100), ZIP 68920 (15/100), ZIP 68966 (15/100), ZIP 68971 (15/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. Other tracked Harlan County ZIPs include 68982, 68960.

Demographically, Harlan County's tracked footprint report vacancy near 24.1%, home values averaging roughly $126,763, below the US, poverty running near 10.4%, a median age of 48.2, a median household income near $62,371 (below the US norm), 79% owner-occupancy. These fundamentals shape the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

With a low 16/100 reading over 8 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific — work it parcel by parcel. Unlock Harlan County to see every parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.

No county is too small to score: Harlan County, Nebraska runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Harlan County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in Nebraska.

Treat Harlan County, Nebraska 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: Harlan County's numbers come from county recorders, the courts, FHFA and FDIC, with nothing interpolated or guessed when a source is sparse.

Drilling in, Harlan County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 68949 (17/100), 68977 (17/100), 68967 (16/100), 68920 (15/100), 68966 (15/100), 68971 (15/100). DLRadar also scores 68982, 68960 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.

DLRadar's composite for Harlan 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.