Dickenson County, VA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

DLRadar tracks property distress across Dickenson County, Virginia using verifiable public-record signals alone. DLRadar scores 12 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 26/100. Lender pressure in Dickenson County registers 34/100 — a contained bank-stress headwind. The county's ZIP scores run from 23 up to 30/100.

The county market is in a expansion phase: home prices rose 5.5% over the past year, at 30/100 phase confidence. Under a rising market, pockets of distress persist and the breakdown below pinpoints them.

Through Dickenson County's +5.5% YoY climb (30/100 confidence), distress still hides in specific ZIPs so buy those and momentum helps on exit. A contained 34/100 bank headwind favors tax, code and ownership-change cases over REO.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 24225 (30/100), ZIP 24237 (27/100), ZIP 24607 (27/100), ZIP 24217 (26/100), ZIP 24220 (26/100), ZIP 24226 (26/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. Also scored across the county: 24228, 24256, 24269, 24272, 24283, 24230.

Demographically, Dickenson County's scored ZIPs come in at a 24% vacancy rate, an owner-occupied share of 78%, 21.7% of households below the poverty line, a median age of 49.5, home values averaging roughly $100,109, below the US, household income averaging about $45,820, below the national median. Income, equity and tenure like these drive the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

Net of it all, 26/100 over 12 ZIPs means the edge is selective acquisition for a disciplined buyer. Inside DLRadar, each Dickenson County property carries owner, APN and address, its own score, the lender behind it and an exit read.

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

For anyone buying in Dickenson County, the scores answer one question first — which ZIPs deserve the marketing budget, with the top reading 30/100. Provenance for Dickenson County is explicit: recorders and courts for filings, FHFA for prices, FDIC for lenders. No interpolation, no synthetic values.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Dickenson County are 24225 (30/100), 24237 (27/100), 24607 (27/100), 24217 (26/100), 24220 (26/100), 24226 (26/100). DLRadar also scores 24228, 24256, 24269, 24272, 24283, 24230 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 Dickenson 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.