Chaves County, NM: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Chaves County, New Mexico is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 11/100 (low). The county's ZIP scores run from 23 up to 34/100. The county spans 9 scored ZIP codes, averaging 31/100 composite distress.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 1.9% over the past year (phase confidence 24/100). On a market plateau, distress turns selective leaving the wins in individual deals.

Near the cycle top at +1.9% YoY (24/100 confidence), selectivity rules and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. A low 11/100 bank headwind favors tax delinquency, probate and liens.

Leading Chaves County on distress: 88201 (34/100), 88203 (34/100), 88230 (34/100), 88232 (34/100), 88339 (33/100), 88344 (32/100). Other tracked Chaves County ZIPs include 88116, 88253, 88250.

On the housing-and-income side, Chaves County's tracked footprint show poverty running near 14.6%, median home values around $165,650 (below the national figure), a 20% vacancy rate, 82% of homes owner-occupied, household income averaging about $53,478, below the national median, residents with a median age around 48.1. These fundamentals set up where pressure builds and how liquid the exit will be.

Net of it all, 31/100 over 9 ZIPs means the edge is selective acquisition rather than a blanket buy. Inside DLRadar, each Chaves County property carries owner, APN and address, a per-parcel score, lender exposure and exit read.

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

Chaves County, New Mexico is best worked from the top of the score down; blanket outreach across Chaves County dilutes effort that the ZIP-level numbers would have focused. The Chaves County scoring is reproducible from public sources alone, and DLRadar declines to estimate where the underlying record is incomplete.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Chaves County are 88201 (34/100), 88203 (34/100), 88230 (34/100), 88232 (34/100), 88339 (33/100), 88344 (32/100). DLRadar also scores 88116, 88253, 88250 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 Chaves 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.