Ellis County, OK: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Ellis County, Oklahoma sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 14/100 — low. The county spans 7 scored ZIP codes, averaging 17/100 composite distress. Individual Ellis County ZIPs score between 11 and 21 on the 0–100 composite.

Currently peak, Ellis County saw prices rise 1.1% year over year, a 28/100-confidence read. On a market plateau, blanket buying underperforms with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

Near the cycle top at +1.1% YoY (28/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific so the headline market won't hand it over. Lender stress at 14/100 (low) points the search to tax, code and ownership-change cases over REO.

By composite, 73841 (21/100), 73840 (20/100), 73859 (20/100), 73832 (19/100), 73851 (19/100), 73843 (11/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Also scored across the county: 73858.

On the housing-and-income side, Ellis County's tracked footprint show a 25% vacancy rate, an owner-occupied share of 78%, incomes around $59,138, a median age of 45.9, a 13.8% poverty rate, home values averaging roughly $122,829, below the US. These fundamentals drive who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

At 17/100 composite over 7 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific — work it parcel by parcel. A DLRadar subscription opens every Ellis County parcel: owner, APN and address, a per-parcel score, lender exposure and exit read.

Whether Ellis County, Oklahoma 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 Ellis County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

For an acquisition buyer, the practical use of Ellis County, Oklahoma's scores is triage: the ZIPs and parcels carrying the highest composite are where motivated sellers and below-market exits concentrate, while lower-scored areas rarely justify the marketing spend. Every figure traces to a public federal or county source — recorder and court records for foreclosure and liens, FHFA for the price cycle, FDIC for lender stress — and DLRadar leaves a signal blank rather than estimating where Ellis County data is thin.

Drilling in, Ellis County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 73841 (21/100), 73840 (20/100), 73859 (20/100), 73832 (19/100), 73851 (19/100), 73843 (11/100). DLRadar also scores 73858 across the county. Every one of these is scored independently — a ZIP's composite reflects its own recorded distress, which is why the county average alone hides where the real pressure sits.

Under Ellis County's headline composite sit distinct layers — recorded foreclosures, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind — each scored separately before they roll up, so the same total can describe very different markets.