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

Starr County, Texas is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. ZIP-level distress ranges from 37/100 at the top down to 13/100. DLRadar scores 11 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 24/100. Lender pressure in Starr County registers 12/100 — a low bank-stress headwind.

Currently peak, Starr County saw prices rise 0.9% year over year, at 9/100 phase confidence. At this stage of the cycle, the opportunity narrows with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

With Starr County flat at +0.9% YoY (9/100 confidence), the discount lives in outliers and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. A low 12/100 bank headwind favors tax, code and ownership-change cases over REO.

By composite, 78563 (37/100), 78595 (35/100), 78536 (23/100), 78547 (23/100), 78548 (23/100), 78582 (23/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Further scored ZIPs: 78584, 78585, 78588, 78591, 78545.

On the housing-and-income side, Starr County's scored ZIPs report 28.1% of households below the poverty line, an owner-occupied share of 79%, vacancy near 34.5%, home values averaging roughly $76,120, below the US, household income averaging about $38,928, below the national median, residents with a median age around 38. Taken together, they set up both the distress on offer and the exit velocity.

Starr County, Texas's 24/100 average over 11 ZIPs says distress here is parcel-specific and not a county-wide play. Inside DLRadar, each Starr County property carries owner, mailing address, APN, a distress reading, the lender on title and exit timing.

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

Approach Starr County by rank rather than by average — the 24/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. The Starr County read is rebuilt from public records as they post — no modeling fills the gaps — so what you see is what the documents support, refreshed on each ingest.

Drilling in, Starr County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 78563 (37/100), 78595 (35/100), 78536 (23/100), 78547 (23/100), 78548 (23/100), 78582 (23/100). DLRadar also scores 78584, 78585, 78588, 78591, 78545 across the county. 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.

Under Starr 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.