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

For Mills County, Texas, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. The county spans 9 scored ZIP codes, averaging 13/100 composite distress. Individual Mills County ZIPs score between 6 and 28 on the 0–100 composite. Lender pressure in Mills County registers 63/100 — a elevated bank-stress headwind.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 2.0% over the past year, at 22/100 phase confidence. With values leveling off, broad sweeps stop paying leaving the wins in individual deals.

Near the cycle top at +2.0% YoY (22/100 confidence), selectivity rules well beyond the county average. Its 63/100 lender headwind signals what's coming: short sales and foreclosures accelerate.

By composite, 76801 (28/100), 76890 (25/100), 76853 (24/100), 76531 (9/100), 76442 (8/100), 76844 (8/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Also scored across the county: 76864, 76870, 76880.

By the numbers, the Mills County ZIPs on file report typical home values near $174,000, poverty running near 11.9%, 81% owner-occupancy, a median age of 49, household income averaging about $55,061, below the national median, vacancy near 27.2%. These fundamentals signal the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

Net of it all, 13/100 over 9 ZIPs means Mills County rewards parcel-by-parcel work and not a county-wide play. Inside DLRadar, each Mills County property carries owner, mailing address, APN, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.

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

The way to work Mills County, Texas is top-down — start with the highest-scoring ZIPs (up to 28/100 here), then drill to the parcels driving those numbers, rather than blanketing Mills County with undifferentiated outreach. All of it is deterministic and auditable: Mills County's numbers come from county recorders, the courts, FHFA and FDIC, with nothing interpolated or guessed when a source is sparse.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Mills County are 76801 (28/100), 76890 (25/100), 76853 (24/100), 76531 (9/100), 76442 (8/100), 76844 (8/100). DLRadar also scores 76864, 76870, 76880 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.

Under Mills 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.