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

DLRadar tracks property distress across Polk County, Nebraska using verifiable public-record signals alone. ZIP-level distress ranges from 27/100 at the top down to 9/100. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 27 on a 0–100 scale, a contained reading. There are 10 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 16/100).

Currently peak, Polk County saw prices rise 3.3% year over year, at 24/100 phase confidence. This late in the run, distress turns selective as the ZIP scores below show.

Near the cycle top at +3.3% YoY (24/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. A steady 27/100 bank reading favors tax delinquency, probate and liens.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 68601 (27/100), ZIP 68651 (16/100), ZIP 68662 (16/100), ZIP 68666 (16/100), ZIP 68628 (15/100), ZIP 68654 (15/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. Further scored ZIPs: 68663, 68367, 68316, 68658.

On the housing-and-income side, Polk County's tracked footprint report poverty running near 9.3%, 83% owner-occupancy, median home values around $168,770 (below the national figure), a median age of 42.1, a median household income near $71,422 (near the US norm), vacancy near 15.2%. Income, equity and tenure like these drive both the distress on offer and the exit velocity.

Polk County, Nebraska's 16/100 average over 10 ZIPs says the opportunity hides below the average — work it parcel by parcel. A DLRadar subscription opens every Polk County parcel: owner, APN and address, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.

Whether Polk County, Nebraska 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 Polk County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

The way to work Polk County, Nebraska is top-down — start with the highest-scoring ZIPs (up to 27/100 here), then drill to the parcels driving those numbers, rather than blanketing Polk County with undifferentiated outreach. Every Polk County signal ties to a named public source, and where the record is sparse DLRadar shows nothing instead of guessing.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Polk County are 68601 (27/100), 68651 (16/100), 68662 (16/100), 68666 (16/100), 68628 (15/100), 68654 (15/100). DLRadar also scores 68663, 68367, 68316, 68658 across the county. Each code carries its own composite built from that ZIP's foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien and lender signals, so two neighboring ZIPs can diverge sharply even inside one county.

DLRadar's composite for Polk 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.