Columbia County, OR: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Every ZIP in Columbia County, Oregon carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. Lender pressure in Columbia County registers 49/100 — a moderate bank-stress headwind. The county's ZIP scores run from 17 up to 24/100. There are 9 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 18/100).
Currently peak, Columbia County saw prices rise 1.0% year over year, a 11/100-confidence read. At this stage of the cycle, the average masks the outliers — the edge is parcel by parcel.
Near the cycle top at +1.0% YoY (11/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific so the headline market won't hand it over. A mid-cycle 49/100 lender reading means both signal sets in play here.
The most-distressed ZIP codes in Columbia County are 97231 (24/100), 97016 (21/100), 97056 (18/100), 97018 (17/100), 97048 (17/100), 97051 (17/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. The breakdown continues through 97053, 97054, 97064 and more.
Underneath the scores, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Columbia County show a 8% poverty rate, 83% owner-occupancy, incomes around $89,287, median home values around $474,956 (above the national figure), vacancy near 6.2%, a median age of 47.8. Income, equity and tenure like these drive where pressure builds and how liquid the exit will be.
At 18/100 composite over 9 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition for a disciplined buyer. A DLRadar subscription opens every Columbia County parcel: owner, APN and address, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.
No county is too small to score: Columbia County, Oregon runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Columbia County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in Oregon.
Approach Columbia County by rank rather than by average — the 18/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. All Columbia County inputs are public record — recorder, court, FHFA and FDIC — and the score is rebuilt on ingest rather than modelled forward.
The ZIP breakdown for Columbia County leads with 97231 (24/100), 97016 (21/100), 97056 (18/100), 97018 (17/100), 97048 (17/100), 97051 (17/100). DLRadar also scores 97053, 97054, 97064 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 Columbia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97231 | OR | 24 | |||
| 97016 | OR | 21 | |||
| 97056 | OR | 18 | |||
| 97018 | OR | 17 | |||
| 97048 | OR | 17 | |||
| 97051 | OR | 17 | |||
| 97053 | OR | 17 | |||
| 97054 | OR | 17 |
Columbia County ZIPs ranked by distress
Unlock Columbia County acquisition data
Each Columbia County parcel comes with owner, address, APN, distress score, bank-stress context and a path from offer to funding to close.
See the opportunity. Back it with capital. Close.
This is one layer of DLRadar - the operating system for real-estate acquisitions. It surfaces distressed opportunities, ranks them, connects you to capital, and organizes the work from signal to closing.
Look around freely. Owner names, contacts, parcel IDs and exports unlock with a subscription; everything else is open during the trial. One trial per customer, no card, never auto-billed.
Other DLRadar layers worth checking
One signal is a hypothesis; four agreeing signals are a thesis. That is what the stack is for.
🏠 The complete DLRadar platform →All of it connected - market read, capital, closing. Free for 60 minutes.dlradar.com