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

Bell County, Texas sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. The county's ZIP scores run from 23 up to 34/100. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 61/100 — elevated, a sign of lender stress locally. There are 23 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 31/100).

Currently recovery, Bell County saw prices rise 1.1% year over year, sitting 1.1% below its cycle peak, a 11/100-confidence read. Despite the upswing, pockets of distress persist where the composite stays elevated.

Through Bell County's +1.1% YoY climb (11/100 confidence), liquidity improves for clean exits where the scoring still flags pressure. An elevated 61/100 reading favors patient capital: expect more lender-driven inventory soon.

Leading Bell County on distress: 76527 (34/100), 76542 (34/100), 76511 (33/100), 76501 (32/100), 76502 (32/100), 76504 (32/100). The breakdown continues through 76513, 76534, 76541, 76543, 76548, 76549, 76554, 76559, 76571, 76579 and more.

By the numbers, Bell County's scored ZIPs come in at median home values around $228,123 (below the national figure), 65% owner-occupancy, a median household income near $68,779 (near the US norm), a median age of 37.1, 12.6% of households below the poverty line, a 11.6% vacancy rate. Income, equity and tenure like these shape who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

Net of it all, 31/100 over 23 ZIPs means Bell County rewards parcel-by-parcel work and not a county-wide play. A DLRadar subscription opens every Bell County parcel: owner and contact detail, APN, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

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

The practical read on Bell County, Texas is a targeting one — find the ZIPs holding real financial pressure, then work the parcels underneath them. 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 Bell County data is thin.

The ZIP breakdown for Bell County leads with 76527 (34/100), 76542 (34/100), 76511 (33/100), 76501 (32/100), 76502 (32/100), 76504 (32/100). DLRadar also scores 76513, 76534, 76541, 76543, 76548, 76549, 76554, 76559 and more 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 Bell 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.