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

Russell County, Virginia is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. DLRadar scores 11 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 29/100. Lender pressure in Russell County registers 58/100 — a moderate bank-stress headwind. The county's ZIP scores run from 24 up to 31/100.

In its expansion phase, Russell County home prices rose 5.5% across the last year, at 30/100 phase confidence. Under a rising market, the laggards keep building so the laggard ZIPs are the opening.

At +5.5% YoY (30/100 confidence), stressed pockets remain so buy those and momentum helps on exit. A moderate 58/100 lender headwind implies both signal sets in play here.

Highest scores land in 24260 (31/100), 24609 (31/100), 24224 (30/100), 24225 (30/100), 24266 (30/100), 24280 (30/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. Also scored across the county: 24649, 24639, 24237, 24271, 24283.

Demographically, Russell County's tracked footprint report poverty running near 21.2%, 75% owner-occupancy, median home values around $130,173 (below the national figure), a median age of 46.3, vacancy near 19.7%, household income averaging about $46,604, below the national median. Income, equity and tenure like these shape how much distress reaches the market and how fast it moves.

At 29/100 composite over 11 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition — work it parcel by parcel. Inside DLRadar, each Russell County property carries owner, APN and address, a distress score plus a funding-to-closing path.

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

Read Russell County, Virginia as a heat map for effort — the county's low composite of 29/100 hides wide ZIP-level variation, and the return comes from chasing the hot ZIPs, not the average. The Russell County figures are auditable line by line — county recorders and courts, FHFA price data, FDIC bank filings — with gaps left visible rather than filled by estimate.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Russell County are 24260 (31/100), 24609 (31/100), 24224 (30/100), 24225 (30/100), 24266 (30/100), 24280 (30/100). DLRadar also scores 24649, 24639, 24237, 24271, 24283 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 Russell 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.