Austin County, TX: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Austin County, Texas is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. Coverage runs to 13 ZIPs across Austin County, a low 27/100 average. On bank and credit headwind, Austin County scores 0/100. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 26 to 29 out of 100.

In its recovery phase, Austin County home prices rose 2.7% across the last year (phase confidence 17/100). Even as prices climb, specific ZIPs still slip which the scoring still flags.

Even appreciating at +2.7% YoY (17/100 confidence), well-bought parcels resell faster where the scoring still flags pressure. Lender stress at 0/100 (low) points the search to tax, code and ownership-change cases over REO.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 77485 (29/100), ZIP 77833 (29/100), ZIP 77835 (29/100), ZIP 77426 (28/100), ZIP 78940 (27/100), ZIP 78954 (27/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. The breakdown continues through 77418, 77473, 77474, 78931, 78933, 78944, 78950 and more.

On the housing-and-income side, the Austin County ZIPs on file come in at a 19% vacancy rate, residents with a median age around 46.2, 79% owner-occupancy, 12.8% of households below the poverty line, home values averaging roughly $340,736, in line with the US, household income averaging about $76,298, roughly at the national median. These fundamentals shape the depth of motivated supply and the pace of resale.

At 27/100 composite over 13 ZIPs, Austin County is a screen-by-ZIP market where the ZIP scores point. Unlock Austin County to see every parcel's owner, APN and address, a distress score and bank-exposure read.

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

Scores in Austin County, Texas exist to concentrate effort: a handful of ZIPs hold most of the distress, and the rest seldom justify the acquisition cost. Every Austin County signal ties to a named public source, and where the record is sparse DLRadar shows nothing instead of guessing.

The ZIP breakdown for Austin County leads with 77485 (29/100), 77833 (29/100), 77835 (29/100), 77426 (28/100), 78940 (27/100), 78954 (27/100). DLRadar also scores 77418, 77473, 77474, 78931, 78933, 78944, 78950 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 Austin 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.