Orleans County, VT: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Across Orleans County, Vermont, DLRadar grades every ZIP for foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress distress. ZIP-level distress ranges from 30/100 at the top down to 20/100. The county spans 24 scored ZIP codes, averaging 29/100 composite distress. On bank and credit headwind, Orleans County scores 40/100.

Currently expansion, Orleans County saw prices rise 6.2% year over year (phase confidence 46/100). Despite the upswing, some owners fall behind anyway where the composite stays elevated.

With growth of +6.2% YoY (46/100 confidence), well-bought parcels resell faster which speeds resale of distressed buys. A mid-cycle 40/100 lender reading implies both signal sets in play here.

Distress concentrates in ZIP 05820 (30/100), ZIP 05822 (30/100), ZIP 05825 (30/100), ZIP 05826 (30/100), ZIP 05827 (30/100), ZIP 05829 (30/100) — drill into any for the parcel-level read. Coverage extends to 05830, 05833, 05839, 05841, 05845, 05847, 05853, 05855, 05857, 05859 among others.

Underneath the scores, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Orleans County come in at incomes around $65,827, residents with a median age around 49.1, 10.4% of households below the poverty line, vacancy near 32.4%, home values averaging roughly $250,805, below the US, 84% of homes owner-occupied. Numbers like these frame the depth of motivated supply and the pace of resale.

At 29/100 composite over 24 ZIPs, Orleans County is a screen-by-ZIP market where the ZIP scores point. Subscribers get each Orleans County parcel's owner, address and APN, a distress reading, the lender on title and exit timing.

Whether Orleans County, Vermont carries heavy distress or only a handful of flagged parcels, every score here is built the same deterministic way — from recorded foreclosures, tax delinquency, liens and lender stress — so Orleans County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Used properly, Orleans County, Vermont's scores are a triage layer: they rank where motivated sellers cluster so acquisition spend goes to the ZIPs that convert rather than across Orleans County as a whole. Nothing in the Orleans 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.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Orleans County are 05820 (30/100), 05822 (30/100), 05825 (30/100), 05826 (30/100), 05827 (30/100), 05829 (30/100). DLRadar also scores 05830, 05833, 05839, 05841, 05845, 05847, 05853, 05855 and more 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.

The Orleans 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.