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

Donley County, Texas sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 9 on a 0–100 scale, a low reading. Individual Donley County ZIPs score between 9 and 21 on the 0–100 composite. 6 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 16/100 distress.

Currently peak, Donley County saw prices rise 2.0% year over year (phase confidence 22/100). At this stage of the cycle, the average masks the outliers leaving the wins in individual deals.

With Donley County flat at +2.0% YoY (22/100 confidence), the discount lives in outliers — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. A steady 9/100 bank reading puts the live signals on tax, code and ownership-change cases over REO.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 79057 (21/100), ZIP 79237 (17/100), ZIP 79240 (17/100), ZIP 79039 (16/100), ZIP 79226 (15/100), ZIP 79245 (9/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read.

Underneath the scores, Donley County's scored ZIPs report a 9.8% poverty rate, a 37.4% vacancy rate, incomes around $55,857, a median age of 40.4, median home values around $88,080 (below the national figure), 82% owner-occupancy. Taken together, they signal the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

Net of it all, 16/100 over 6 ZIPs means Donley County rewards parcel-by-parcel work and not a county-wide play. Subscribers get each Donley County parcel's owner, APN and address, a distress score and bank-exposure read.

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

For an acquisition buyer, the practical use of Donley County, Texas's scores is triage: the ZIPs and parcels carrying the highest composite are where motivated sellers and below-market exits concentrate, while lower-scored areas rarely justify the marketing spend. All of it is deterministic and auditable: Donley County's numbers come from county recorders, the courts, FHFA and FDIC, with nothing interpolated or guessed when a source is sparse.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Donley County are 79057 (21/100), 79237 (17/100), 79240 (17/100), 79039 (16/100), 79226 (15/100), 79245 (9/100). 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.

DLRadar's composite for Donley 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.