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

Salem County, Virginia sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. Coverage runs to 1 ZIP across Salem County, a low 28/100 average. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 53 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 3.1% over twelve months, at 30/100 phase confidence. On a market plateau, the average masks the outliers leaving the wins in individual deals.

With Salem County flat at +3.1% YoY (30/100 confidence), the discount lives in outliers — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. A moderate 53/100 lender headwind implies mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

The sharpest Salem County readings come from 24153 (28/100) — open any for the parcel detail.

By the numbers, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Salem County show vacancy near 7.9%, home values averaging roughly $266,500, below the US, household income averaging about $72,691, roughly at the national median, 72% of homes owner-occupied, a 10.1% poverty rate, residents with a median age around 42.5. Read together, they drive which owners come under strain and how quickly stock clears.

At 28/100 composite over 1 ZIP, the edge is selective acquisition — work it parcel by parcel. A DLRadar subscription opens every Salem County parcel: owner, mailing address, APN, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

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

Used properly, Salem County, Virginia's scores are a triage layer: they rank where motivated sellers cluster so acquisition spend goes to the ZIPs that convert rather than across Salem County as a whole. Every figure traces to a public federal or county source — recorder and court records for foreclosure and liens, FHFA for the price cycle, FDIC for lender stress — and DLRadar leaves a signal blank rather than estimating where Salem County data is thin.

Drilling in, Salem County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 24153 (28/100). 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.

The Salem County score is not a single measure but a composite: foreclosure activity, mortgage and tax-lien stress, and local lender headwind each feed it, which is why understanding the components matters as much as the headline number.