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

Every ZIP in Galveston County, Texas carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 49 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading. ZIP-level distress ranges from 37/100 at the top down to 34/100. 19 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 34/100 distress.

In its recovery phase, Galveston County home prices rose 2.7% across the last year (phase confidence 17/100). Despite the upswing, the laggards keep building so the laggard ZIPs are the opening.

With growth of +2.7% YoY (17/100 confidence), stressed pockets remain — and a rising tide cleans up those exits. A moderate 49/100 lender headwind implies mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Galveston County are 77511 (37/100), 77546 (36/100), 77510 (35/100), 77517 (35/100), 77518 (34/100), 77539 (34/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. The breakdown continues through 77550, 77551, 77554, 77555, 77563, 77565, 77568, 77573, 77590, 77591 and more.

By the numbers, the Galveston County ZIPs on file come in at a median household income near $90,426 (above the US norm), a 19.1% vacancy rate, 11.9% of households below the poverty line, 69% owner-occupancy, home values averaging roughly $300,869, in line with the US, residents with a median age around 44. Numbers like these shape both the distress on offer and the exit velocity.

At 34/100 composite over 19 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific for a disciplined buyer. A DLRadar subscription opens every Galveston County parcel: owner, APN and address, a distress score plus a funding-to-closing path.

No county is too small to score: Galveston County, Texas runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Galveston County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in Texas.

Read Galveston County, Texas as a heat map for effort — the county's moderate composite of 34/100 hides wide ZIP-level variation, and the return comes from chasing the hot ZIPs, not the average. All Galveston County inputs are public record — recorder, court, FHFA and FDIC — and the score is rebuilt on ingest rather than modelled forward.

Drilling in, Galveston County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 77511 (37/100), 77546 (36/100), 77510 (35/100), 77517 (35/100), 77518 (34/100), 77539 (34/100). DLRadar also scores 77550, 77551, 77554, 77555, 77563, 77565, 77568, 77573 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 Galveston 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.