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

DLRadar tracks property distress across Wise County, Virginia using verifiable public-record signals alone. The county's ZIP scores run from 21 up to 24/100. Coverage runs to 8 ZIPs across Wise County, a low 23/100 average. On bank and credit headwind, Wise County scores 76/100, a stressed reading.

The county market is in a expansion phase: home prices rose 5.5% over the past year, at 30/100 phase confidence. Through the growth, some owners fall behind anyway and the breakdown below pinpoints them.

With growth of +5.5% YoY (30/100 confidence), distress still hides in specific ZIPs where the scoring still flags pressure. Bank stress at 76/100 favors patient capital: banks under pressure move REO faster.

By composite, 24283 (24/100), 24216 (23/100), 24230 (23/100), 24246 (23/100), 24279 (23/100), 24293 (23/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Other tracked Wise County ZIPs include 24273, 24219.

On the housing-and-income side, Wise County's scored ZIPs show a median household income near $48,544 (below the US norm), 13.6% of units sitting vacant, 18.2% of households below the poverty line, home values averaging roughly $109,643, below the US, residents with a median age around 44.3, 67% owner-occupancy. Taken together, they set up the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

At 23/100 composite over 8 ZIPs, Wise County is a screen-by-ZIP market and not a county-wide play. Inside DLRadar, each Wise County property carries owner, address and APN, a distress score plus a funding-to-closing path.

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

Treat Wise County, Virginia as a ranked list, not a single market: the spread between its strongest and weakest ZIPs is where the acquisition margin actually sits. Nothing in the Wise 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, Wise County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 24283 (24/100), 24216 (23/100), 24230 (23/100), 24246 (23/100), 24279 (23/100), 24293 (23/100). DLRadar also scores 24273, 24219 across the county. 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 Wise 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.