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

DLRadar tracks property distress across Lavaca County, Texas using verifiable public-record signals alone. Lender pressure in Lavaca County registers 5/100 — a low bank-stress headwind. DLRadar scores 8 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 27/100. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 25 to 29 out of 100.

Currently peak, Lavaca County saw prices rise 2.0% year over year (phase confidence 22/100). With pricing topped out, the opportunity narrows — the edge is parcel by parcel.

Near the cycle top at +2.0% YoY (22/100 confidence), selectivity rules — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. A steady 5/100 bank reading favors tax delinquency, probate and liens.

The sharpest Lavaca County readings come from 77995 (29/100), 78956 (29/100), 77964 (26/100), 77975 (26/100), 77986 (26/100), 77987 (26/100) — open any for the parcel detail. Coverage extends to 77984, 78941 among others.

Underneath the scores, Lavaca County's scored ZIPs report incomes around $65,438, 75% owner-occupancy, a 10.2% poverty rate, a 23.3% vacancy rate, a median age of 42.3, typical home values near $225,971. Numbers like these shape how much distress reaches the market and how fast it moves.

Net of it all, 27/100 over 8 ZIPs means the edge is selective acquisition where the ZIP scores point. Unlock Lavaca County to see every parcel's owner, address and APN, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.

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

For anyone buying in Lavaca County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 29/100. Nothing in the Lavaca 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 Lavaca County are 77995 (29/100), 78956 (29/100), 77964 (26/100), 77975 (26/100), 77986 (26/100), 77987 (26/100). DLRadar also scores 77984, 78941 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.

DLRadar's composite for Lavaca County blends several independent signals — foreclosure and pre-foreclosure filings, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, and the bank-stress headwind of the lenders operating locally — into one 0–100 score per ZIP, so a market can rank high on one axis and low on another.