Lea County, NM: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Lea County, New Mexico is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. Coverage runs to 11 ZIPs across Lea County, a low 24/100 average. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 18/100.
Currently peak, Lea County saw prices rise 1.9% year over year, a 24/100-confidence read. With values leveling off, the average masks the outliers as the ZIP scores below show.
With Lea County flat at +1.9% YoY (24/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. A contained 18/100 bank headwind favors tax delinquency, probate and liens.
By composite, 88114 (24/100), 88231 (24/100), 88240 (24/100), 88242 (24/100), 88244 (24/100), 88252 (24/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Other tracked Lea County ZIPs include 88260, 88262, 88264, 88265, 88267.
On the housing-and-income side, Lea County's scored ZIPs show a median household income near $70,064 (near the US norm), an owner-occupied share of 79%, 11.1% of households below the poverty line, a 31.6% vacancy rate, median home values around $174,543 (below the national figure), a median age of 35. Income, equity and tenure like these signal where pressure builds and how liquid the exit will be.
All in at 24/100 over 11 ZIPs, Lea County is a screen-by-ZIP market and not a county-wide play. A DLRadar subscription opens every Lea County parcel: owner, mailing address, APN, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.
Because Lea County, New Mexico is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Lea County against neighboring markets or the rest of New Mexico on equal footing.
For anyone buying in Lea County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 24/100. All Lea County inputs are public record — recorder, court, FHFA and FDIC — and the score is rebuilt on ingest rather than modelled forward.
At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Lea County are 88114 (24/100), 88231 (24/100), 88240 (24/100), 88242 (24/100), 88244 (24/100), 88252 (24/100). DLRadar also scores 88260, 88262, 88264, 88265, 88267 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 Lea 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.
| ZIP | State | Distress score | 🔒 Owner | 🔒 Property Address | 🔒 Parcel ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88114 | NM | 24 | |||
| 88231 | NM | 24 | |||
| 88240 | NM | 24 | |||
| 88242 | NM | 24 | |||
| 88244 | NM | 24 | |||
| 88252 | NM | 24 | |||
| 88260 | NM | 24 | |||
| 88262 | NM | 24 |
Where distress concentrates in Lea County
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