Jefferson County, OR: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Jefferson County, Oregon is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. There are 8 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 19/100). County-level credit and bank headwind reads 46/100. The county's ZIP scores run from 15 up to 23/100.

The county market is in a neutral phase: home prices rose 0.5% over the past year (phase confidence 7/100). With pricing topped out, the average masks the outliers as the ZIP scores below show.

Near the cycle top at +0.5% YoY (7/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific so the headline market won't hand it over. A mid-cycle 46/100 lender reading implies mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

Top distress by ZIP runs 97759 (23/100), 97760 (23/100), 97761 (21/100), 97711 (18/100), 97730 (18/100), 97734 (18/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. Further scored ZIPs: 97741, 97754.

Underneath the scores, Jefferson County's tracked footprint report residents with a median age around 48.9, 9.2% of households below the poverty line, 76% of homes owner-occupied, incomes around $78,442, home values averaging roughly $469,857, above the US, 29.2% of units sitting vacant. Taken together, they signal the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.

All in at 19/100 over 8 ZIPs, Jefferson County rewards parcel-by-parcel work for a disciplined buyer. Inside DLRadar, each Jefferson County property carries owner and contact detail, APN, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.

Because Jefferson County, Oregon is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Jefferson County against neighboring markets or the rest of Oregon on equal footing.

For anyone buying in Jefferson County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 23/100. The Jefferson 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.

Drilling in, Jefferson County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 97759 (23/100), 97760 (23/100), 97761 (21/100), 97711 (18/100), 97730 (18/100), 97734 (18/100). DLRadar also scores 97741, 97754 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.

DLRadar's composite for Jefferson 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.