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

Across Sierra County, New Mexico, DLRadar grades every ZIP for foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress distress. ZIP-level distress ranges from 30/100 at the top down to 10/100. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 0/100 (low). DLRadar scores 10 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 12/100.

Currently peak, Sierra County saw prices rise 1.1% year over year (phase confidence 26/100). This late in the run, the average masks the outliers leaving the wins in individual deals.

At +1.1% YoY and 26/100 confidence, selectivity rules and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. A low 0/100 bank headwind puts the live signals on owner-driven distress more than bank stock.

By composite, 87936 (30/100), 87901 (10/100), 87930 (10/100), 87931 (10/100), 87933 (10/100), 87935 (10/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Also scored across the county: 87939, 87942, 87943, 88042.

Demographically, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Sierra County run a median age of 62.3, an owner-occupied share of 86%, household income averaging about $35,186, below the national median, poverty running near 23.4%, median home values around $164,060 (below the national figure), a 32.3% vacancy rate. Read together, they drive which owners come under strain and how quickly stock clears.

Net of it all, 12/100 over 10 ZIPs means the edge is selective acquisition where the ZIP scores point. Subscribers get each Sierra County parcel's owner, mailing address, APN, a per-parcel score, lender exposure and exit read.

Whether Sierra County, New Mexico 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 Sierra County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

For anyone buying in Sierra County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 30/100. All Sierra 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 Sierra County are 87936 (30/100), 87901 (10/100), 87930 (10/100), 87931 (10/100), 87933 (10/100), 87935 (10/100). DLRadar also scores 87939, 87942, 87943, 88042 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 Sierra 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.