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

Cooke County, Texas is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. On bank and credit headwind, Cooke County scores 39/100. Coverage runs to 16 ZIPs across Cooke County, a low 27/100 average. The county's ZIP scores run from 22 up to 32/100.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 0.9% over twelve months, at 9/100 phase confidence. With pricing topped out, the opportunity narrows as the ZIP scores below show.

At +0.9% YoY and 9/100 confidence, opportunity is parcel-specific — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. A mid-cycle 39/100 lender reading implies a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

Highest scores land in 76266 (32/100), 76258 (31/100), 76239 (27/100), 76265 (27/100), 76233 (26/100), 76238 (26/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. Other tracked Cooke County ZIPs include 76240, 76241, 76250, 76252, 76253, 76263, 76271, 76273, 76272, 76234.

Underneath the scores, Cooke County's scored ZIPs run a median household income near $82,558 (near the US norm), residents with a median age around 42.2, vacancy near 8.1%, 79% owner-occupancy, poverty running near 6.7%, home values averaging roughly $272,887, below the US. Income, equity and tenure like these signal who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

All in at 27/100 over 16 ZIPs, the opportunity hides below the average for a disciplined buyer. Inside DLRadar, each Cooke County property carries owner, address and APN, a distress score and bank-exposure read.

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

Approach Cooke County by rank rather than by average — the 27/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. These Cooke County numbers come straight from public filings and refresh as new ones post; a missing source produces a blank field, never an estimate.

Drilling in, Cooke County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 76266 (32/100), 76258 (31/100), 76239 (27/100), 76265 (27/100), 76233 (26/100), 76238 (26/100). DLRadar also scores 76240, 76241, 76250, 76252, 76253, 76263, 76271, 76273 and more 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.

Under Cooke 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.