Otero County, NM: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Otero County, New Mexico is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. ZIP-level distress ranges from 33/100 at the top down to 27/100. Coverage runs to 18 ZIPs across Otero County, a moderate 32/100 average. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 24/100 (contained).
Currently peak, Otero County saw prices rise 1.9% year over year (phase confidence 24/100). With pricing topped out, the average masks the outliers — the edge is parcel by parcel.
At +1.9% YoY and 24/100 confidence, selectivity rules well beyond the county average. A contained 24/100 bank headwind points the search to tax, code and ownership-change cases over REO.
Highest scores land in 88339 (33/100), 88310 (32/100), 88311 (32/100), 88314 (32/100), 88317 (32/100), 88325 (32/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. Further scored ZIPs: 88330, 88337, 88340, 88342, 88344, 88347, 88349, 88350, 88352, 88354.
On the housing-and-income side, Otero County's scored ZIPs run 18.5% of households below the poverty line, 79% of homes owner-occupied, household income averaging about $52,265, below the national median, median home values around $168,363 (below the national figure), vacancy near 43.7%, a median age of 45.7. Numbers like these shape which owners come under strain and how quickly stock clears.
At 32/100 composite over 18 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average — work it parcel by parcel. A DLRadar subscription opens every Otero County parcel: owner, mailing address, APN, a distress reading, the lender on title and exit timing.
The distress read for Otero County, New Mexico is refreshed as new public records post and uses the same methodology coast to coast, so Otero County stays directly comparable to any other market you track.
Read Otero County, New Mexico as a heat map for effort — the county's moderate composite of 32/100 hides wide ZIP-level variation, and the return comes from chasing the hot ZIPs, not the average. Provenance for Otero County is explicit: recorders and courts for filings, FHFA for prices, FDIC for lenders. No interpolation, no synthetic values.
The ZIP breakdown for Otero County leads with 88339 (33/100), 88310 (32/100), 88311 (32/100), 88314 (32/100), 88317 (32/100), 88325 (32/100). DLRadar also scores 88330, 88337, 88340, 88342, 88344, 88347, 88349, 88350 and more across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.
DLRadar's composite for Otero 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88339 | NM | 33 | |||
| 88310 | NM | 32 | |||
| 88311 | NM | 32 | |||
| 88314 | NM | 32 | |||
| 88317 | NM | 32 | |||
| 88325 | NM | 32 | |||
| 88330 | NM | 32 | |||
| 88337 | NM | 32 |
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