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

Every ZIP in Kent County, Texas carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 0/100 (low). There are 4 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 6/100). The county's ZIP scores run from 0 up to 13/100.

Currently peak, Kent County saw prices rise 2.0% year over year, a 22/100-confidence read. This late in the run, the average masks the outliers as the ZIP scores below show.

Kent County's topped-out +2.0% YoY (22/100 confidence) means selectivity rules and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. A steady 0/100 bank reading points the search to tax delinquency, probate and liens.

By composite, 79549 (13/100), 79370 (10/100), 79528 (1/100), 79518 (0/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper.

Profile-wise, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Kent County come in at poverty running near 10.1%, a median age of 49.7, household income averaging about $59,155, below the national median, vacancy near 32.9%, an owner-occupied share of 71%, home values averaging roughly $93,000, below the US. These fundamentals frame the depth of motivated supply and the pace of resale.

With a minimal 6/100 reading over 4 ZIPs, distress here is parcel-specific for a disciplined buyer. Unlock Kent County to see every parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.

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

For an acquisition buyer, the practical use of Kent 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. Nothing in the Kent 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.

Drilling in, Kent County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 79549 (13/100), 79370 (10/100), 79528 (1/100), 79518 (0/100). 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.

The Kent 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.