Adams County, WA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Adams County, Washington sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. There are 11 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 16/100). ZIP-level distress ranges from 21/100 at the top down to 13/100. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 50 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading.

In its peak phase, Adams County home prices rose 0.4% across the last year, a 16/100-confidence read. With values leveling off, the average masks the outliers with opportunity concentrated by ZIP.

Near the cycle top at +0.4% YoY (16/100 confidence), the discount lives in outliers and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. A mid-cycle 50/100 lender reading points to mixed owner- and bank-driven distress.

Leading Adams County on distress: 99333 (21/100), 98832 (19/100), 98857 (19/100), 99032 (16/100), 99159 (16/100), 99344 (15/100). Other tracked Adams County ZIPs include 99105, 99169, 99326, 99341, 99371.

On the housing-and-income side, Adams County's tracked footprint show home values averaging roughly $250,191, below the US, 10.4% of households below the poverty line, a 14.2% vacancy rate, a median age of 45.3, an owner-occupied share of 78%, incomes around $65,153. Numbers like these signal both the distress on offer and the exit velocity.

With a low 16/100 reading over 11 ZIPs, Adams County is a screen-by-ZIP market and not a county-wide play. Inside DLRadar, each Adams County property carries owner, address and APN, its own score, the lender behind it and an exit read.

Whether Adams County, Washington 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 Adams County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Approach Adams County by rank rather than by average — the 16/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. Provenance for Adams 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 Adams County are 99333 (21/100), 98832 (19/100), 98857 (19/100), 99032 (16/100), 99159 (16/100), 99344 (15/100). DLRadar also scores 99105, 99169, 99326, 99341, 99371 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 Adams 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.