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

For Gray County, Texas, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. The county spans 9 scored ZIP codes, averaging 20/100 composite distress. The county's ZIP scores run from 13 up to 24/100. Lender pressure in Gray County registers 33/100 — a contained bank-stress headwind.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 0.9% over twelve months, at 9/100 phase confidence. On a market plateau, the opportunity narrows — the edge is parcel by parcel.

With Gray County flat at +0.9% YoY (9/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific so the headline market won't hand it over. A contained 33/100 bank headwind favors tax, code and ownership-change cases over REO.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 79002 (24/100), ZIP 79054 (24/100), ZIP 79066 (24/100), ZIP 79065 (22/100), ZIP 79057 (21/100), ZIP 79059 (17/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. The breakdown continues through 79039, 79061, 79097 and more.

On the housing-and-income side, Gray County's tracked footprint come in at a 19.4% vacancy rate, 85% of homes owner-occupied, home values averaging roughly $104,886, below the US, residents with a median age around 40.7, 7.4% of households below the poverty line, a median household income near $59,177 (below the US norm). Income, equity and tenure like these signal how much distress reaches the market and how fast it moves.

Net of it all, 20/100 over 9 ZIPs means distress here is parcel-specific and not a county-wide play. Subscribers get each Gray County parcel's owner, mailing address, APN, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.

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

The point of scoring Gray County, Texas is to narrow it — the high-composite ZIPs carry the distress, and everything below them rarely repays the outreach cost. The Gray County scoring is reproducible from public sources alone, and DLRadar declines to estimate where the underlying record is incomplete.

Drilling in, Gray County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 79002 (24/100), 79054 (24/100), 79066 (24/100), 79065 (22/100), 79057 (21/100), 79059 (17/100). DLRadar also scores 79039, 79061, 79097 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 Gray 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.