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

Every ZIP in Wilson County, Texas carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. ZIP-level distress ranges from 37/100 at the top down to 21/100. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 36/100 (moderate). Coverage runs to 12 ZIPs across Wilson County, a low 27/100 average.

In its contraction phase, Wilson County home prices fell 1.2% across the last year, now 2.0% off the recent peak, at 21/100 phase confidence. As values soften here, seller motivation builds which surfaces more motivated sellers.

Given Wilson County's -1.2% YoY cooling (21/100 confidence), discipline beats speed as motivated sellers multiply. A mid-cycle 36/100 lender reading points to a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 78112 (37/100), ZIP 78223 (36/100), ZIP 78101 (32/100), ZIP 78140 (29/100), ZIP 78121 (27/100), ZIP 78114 (25/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. Also scored across the county: 78143, 78147, 78160, 78161, 78064, 78113.

By the numbers, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Wilson County report 11.5% of units sitting vacant, an owner-occupied share of 80%, residents with a median age around 37.1, a 16% poverty rate, home values averaging roughly $237,545, below the US, a median household income near $70,290 (near the US norm). These fundamentals drive the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.

At 27/100 composite over 12 ZIPs, Wilson County is a screen-by-ZIP market rather than a blanket buy. Inside DLRadar, each Wilson County property carries owner, mailing address, APN, its own score, the lender behind it and an exit read.

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

Wilson County, Texas is best worked from the top of the score down; blanket outreach across Wilson County dilutes effort that the ZIP-level numbers would have focused. All Wilson County inputs are public record — recorder, court, FHFA and FDIC — and the score is rebuilt on ingest rather than modelled forward.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Wilson County are 78112 (37/100), 78223 (36/100), 78101 (32/100), 78140 (29/100), 78121 (27/100), 78114 (25/100). DLRadar also scores 78143, 78147, 78160, 78161, 78064, 78113 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 Wilson 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.