Ward County, TX: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Across Ward County, Texas, DLRadar grades every ZIP for foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress distress. The county spans 6 scored ZIP codes, averaging 4/100 composite distress. On bank and credit headwind, Ward County scores 18/100. The county's ZIP scores run from 3 up to 8/100.
The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 2.0% over twelve months, at 22/100 phase confidence. This late in the run, the average masks the outliers as the ZIP scores below show.
Near the cycle top at +2.0% YoY (22/100 confidence), the wins are surgical and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. A steady 18/100 bank reading puts the live signals on tax delinquency, probate and liens.
By composite, 79772 (8/100), 79719 (3/100), 79742 (3/100), 79756 (3/100), 79777 (3/100), 79788 (3/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper.
Profile-wise, the Ward County ZIPs on file report median home values around $160,720 (below the national figure), vacancy near 21.1%, incomes around $64,427, a median age of 34.3, an owner-occupied share of 83%, a 15.5% poverty rate. Income, equity and tenure like these drive which owners come under strain and how quickly stock clears.
Ward County, Texas's 4/100 average over 6 ZIPs says Ward County rewards parcel-by-parcel work and not a county-wide play. A DLRadar subscription opens every Ward County parcel: owner, APN and address, a parcel-level score plus bank exposure and liquidity read.
No county is too small to score: Ward County, Texas runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Ward County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in Texas.
For anyone buying in Ward County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 8/100. Nothing in the Ward 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, Ward County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 79772 (8/100), 79719 (3/100), 79742 (3/100), 79756 (3/100), 79777 (3/100), 79788 (3/100). 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.
DLRadar's composite for Ward 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.
| ZIP | State | Distress score | 🔒 Owner | 🔒 Property Address | 🔒 Parcel ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 79772 | TX | 8 | |||
| 79719 | TX | 3 | |||
| 79742 | TX | 3 | |||
| 79756 | TX | 3 | |||
| 79777 | TX | 3 | |||
| 79788 | TX | 3 |
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