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

DLRadar tracks property distress across Johnson County, Nebraska using verifiable public-record signals alone. Lender pressure in Johnson County registers 44/100 — a moderate bank-stress headwind. The county spans 12 scored ZIP codes, averaging 9/100 composite distress. The county's ZIP scores run from 1 up to 18/100.

In its peak phase, Johnson County home prices rose 3.3% across the last year (phase confidence 24/100). With pricing topped out, blanket buying underperforms leaving the wins in individual deals.

Johnson County's topped-out +3.3% YoY (24/100 confidence) means the discount lives in outliers — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. A mid-cycle 44/100 lender reading means mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

Top distress by ZIP runs 68378 (18/100), 68357 (11/100), 68348 (10/100), 68448 (10/100), 68324 (9/100), 68332 (9/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. Also scored across the county: 68443, 68450, 68329, 68458, 68441, 68447.

Demographically, Johnson County's scored ZIPs report poverty running near 9.3%, 84% of homes owner-occupied, household income averaging about $63,256, below the national median, a median age of 47.2, 18.6% of units sitting vacant, median home values around $150,820 (below the national figure). Numbers like these drive both the distress on offer and the exit velocity.

At 9/100 composite over 12 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific and not a county-wide play. A DLRadar subscription opens every Johnson County parcel: owner, address and APN, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.

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

For anyone buying in Johnson County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 18/100. The Johnson County scoring is reproducible from public sources alone, and DLRadar declines to estimate where the underlying record is incomplete.

Drilling in, Johnson County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 68378 (18/100), 68357 (11/100), 68348 (10/100), 68448 (10/100), 68324 (9/100), 68332 (9/100). DLRadar also scores 68443, 68450, 68329, 68458, 68441, 68447 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.

Under Johnson 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.