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

Across Taos County, New Mexico, DLRadar grades every ZIP for foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress distress. Lender pressure in Taos County registers 50/100 — a moderate bank-stress headwind. Individual Taos County ZIPs score between 17 and 23 on the 0–100 composite. There are 21 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 18/100).

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 1.9% over twelve months, a 24/100-confidence read. With values leveling off, broad sweeps stop paying with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

Taos County's topped-out +1.9% YoY (24/100 confidence) means the discount lives in outliers well beyond the county average. A mid-cycle 50/100 lender reading means a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 87549 (23/100), ZIP 87521 (22/100), ZIP 87577 (21/100), ZIP 87531 (20/100), ZIP 87512 (17/100), ZIP 87513 (17/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. Coverage extends to 87514, 87517, 87519, 87524, 87525, 87529, 87543, 87553, 87556, 87557 among others.

Underneath the scores, Taos County's scored ZIPs come in at 18.5% of households below the poverty line, a 37% vacancy rate, incomes around $63,223, typical home values near $350,254, residents with a median age around 50.8, 89% of homes owner-occupied. Numbers like these shape the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

Net of it all, 18/100 over 21 ZIPs means Taos County rewards parcel-by-parcel work and not a county-wide play. Unlock Taos County to see every parcel's owner, mailing address, APN, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

Because Taos 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 Taos County against neighboring markets or the rest of New Mexico on equal footing.

For anyone buying in Taos County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 23/100. The Taos County figures are auditable line by line — county recorders and courts, FHFA price data, FDIC bank filings — with gaps left visible rather than filled by estimate.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Taos County are 87549 (23/100), 87521 (22/100), 87577 (21/100), 87531 (20/100), 87512 (17/100), 87513 (17/100). DLRadar also scores 87514, 87517, 87519, 87524, 87525, 87529, 87543, 87553 and more 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 Taos 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.