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

Kaufman County, Texas is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 24 to 32 out of 100. There are 13 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 29/100). Bank/credit headwind for the county is 78 on a 0–100 scale, a elevated reading.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 0.9% over twelve months, at 9/100 phase confidence. With pricing topped out, distress turns selective — the edge is parcel by parcel.

Kaufman County's topped-out +0.9% YoY (9/100 confidence) means the discount lives in outliers so the headline market won't hand it over. An elevated 78/100 reading is a buyer tailwind: expect more lender-driven inventory soon.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Kaufman County are 75159 (32/100), 75156 (31/100), 75114 (30/100), 75126 (30/100), 75142 (30/100), 75157 (30/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Coverage extends to 75158, 75161, 75143, 75160, 75147, 75169, 75474 among others.

On the housing-and-income side, the Kaufman County ZIPs on file come in at a 11.2% poverty rate, vacancy near 10.3%, incomes around $82,142, residents with a median age around 40.5, home values averaging roughly $249,685, below the US, an owner-occupied share of 79%. Read together, they drive the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.

At 29/100 composite over 13 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific where the ZIP scores point. Inside DLRadar, each Kaufman County property carries owner and contact detail, APN, a distress score plus a funding-to-closing path.

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

The practical read on Kaufman County, Texas is a targeting one — find the ZIPs holding real financial pressure, then work the parcels underneath them. Nothing in the Kaufman County read is modelled: recorder and court filings drive foreclosure and lien signals, FHFA sets the price cycle, FDIC the lender stress, and a thin source stays blank.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Kaufman County are 75159 (32/100), 75156 (31/100), 75114 (30/100), 75126 (30/100), 75142 (30/100), 75157 (30/100). DLRadar also scores 75158, 75161, 75143, 75160, 75147, 75169, 75474 across the county. 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 Kaufman 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.