Howard County, TX: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Howard County, Texas is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. 6 ZIP codes are tracked county-wide, averaging 7/100 distress. ZIP-level distress ranges from 9/100 at the top down to 5/100. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 19/100 (contained).
The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 0.9% over the past year (phase confidence 9/100). With values leveling off, the opportunity narrows leaving the wins in individual deals.
Howard County's topped-out +0.9% YoY (9/100 confidence) means selectivity rules so the headline market won't hand it over. A contained 19/100 bank headwind points the search to tax, code and ownership-change cases over REO.
Top distress by ZIP runs 79721 (9/100), 79733 (9/100), 79511 (7/100), 79748 (7/100), 79720 (6/100), 79713 (5/100), listed with every scored ZIP below.
Profile-wise, Howard County's scored ZIPs show 11.8% of units sitting vacant, 65% of homes owner-occupied, a median age of 29.3, incomes around $72,960, median home values around $239,250 (below the national figure), 18.8% of households below the poverty line. These fundamentals frame where pressure builds and how liquid the exit will be.
Net of it all, 7/100 over 6 ZIPs means the edge is selective acquisition — work it parcel by parcel. Subscribers get each Howard County parcel's owner, APN and address, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.
No county is too small to score: Howard County, Texas runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Howard County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in Texas.
Howard County, Texas is best worked from the top of the score down; blanket outreach across Howard County dilutes effort that the ZIP-level numbers would have focused. The Howard County scoring is reproducible from public sources alone, and DLRadar declines to estimate where the underlying record is incomplete.
At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Howard County are 79721 (9/100), 79733 (9/100), 79511 (7/100), 79748 (7/100), 79720 (6/100), 79713 (5/100). 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.
The Howard County score is not a single measure but a composite: foreclosure activity, mortgage and tax-lien stress, and local lender headwind each feed it, which is why understanding the components matters as much as the headline number.
| ZIP | State | Distress score | 🔒 Owner | 🔒 Property Address | 🔒 Parcel ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 79721 | TX | 9 | |||
| 79733 | TX | 9 | |||
| 79511 | TX | 7 | |||
| 79748 | TX | 7 | |||
| 79720 | TX | 6 | |||
| 79713 | TX | 5 |
Most distressed ZIP codes in Howard County
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