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

Brooks County, Texas sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 8 to 21 out of 100. 2 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 15/100 distress. Lender pressure in Brooks County registers 62/100 — a elevated bank-stress headwind.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 0.9% over the past year, at 9/100 phase confidence. With values leveling off, the opportunity narrows with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

Near the cycle top at +0.9% YoY (9/100 confidence), the wins are surgical so the headline market won't hand it over. Bank stress at 62/100 signals what's coming: banks under pressure move REO faster.

By composite, 78355 (21/100), 78353 (8/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper.

Demographically, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Brooks County show 32.6% of units sitting vacant, a median age of 42.2, incomes around $32,636, 54% owner-occupancy, 23.9% of households below the poverty line, median home values around $82,400 (below the national figure). Read together, they signal how much distress reaches the market and how fast it moves.

All in at 15/100 over 2 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition where the ZIP scores point. A DLRadar subscription opens every Brooks County parcel: owner, address and APN, a distress score and bank-exposure read.

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

The point of scoring Brooks County, Texas is to narrow it — the high-composite ZIPs carry the distress, and everything below them rarely repays the outreach cost. Nothing in the Brooks County read is modelled: recorder and court filings drive foreclosure and lien signals, FHFA sets the price cycle, FDIC the lender stress, and a thin source stays blank.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Brooks County are 78355 (21/100), 78353 (8/100). Each code carries its own composite built from that ZIP's foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien and lender signals, so two neighboring ZIPs can diverge sharply even inside one county.

Under Brooks 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.