Bayfield County, WI: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Bayfield County, Wisconsin is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 0 on a 0–100 scale, a low reading. The county's ZIP scores run from 15 up to 16/100. DLRadar scores 15 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 16/100.

Currently peak, Bayfield County saw prices rise 4.6% year over year, a 40/100-confidence read. With values leveling off, distress turns selective so screen ZIP by ZIP.

With Bayfield County flat at +4.6% YoY (40/100 confidence), opportunity is parcel-specific well beyond the county average. A steady 0/100 bank reading favors tax delinquency, probate and liens.

Leading Bayfield County on distress: 54517 (16/100), 54814 (16/100), 54820 (16/100), 54821 (16/100), 54827 (16/100), 54832 (16/100). Coverage extends to 54838, 54839, 54844, 54847, 54856, 54865, 54873, 54891, 54806 among others.

By the numbers, Bayfield County's tracked footprint report household income averaging about $66,836, below the national median, a 9.5% poverty rate, residents with a median age around 55.8, median home values around $249,327 (below the national figure), a 45.7% vacancy rate, 87% owner-occupancy. Taken together, they drive the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

With a low 16/100 reading over 15 ZIPs, Bayfield County is a screen-by-ZIP market where the ZIP scores point. Unlock Bayfield County to see every parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, a distress reading, the lender on title and exit timing.

Whether Bayfield County, Wisconsin 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 Bayfield County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

The way to work Bayfield County, Wisconsin is top-down — start with the highest-scoring ZIPs (up to 16/100 here), then drill to the parcels driving those numbers, rather than blanketing Bayfield County with undifferentiated outreach. 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 Bayfield County data is thin.

Drilling in, Bayfield County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 54517 (16/100), 54814 (16/100), 54820 (16/100), 54821 (16/100), 54827 (16/100), 54832 (16/100). DLRadar also scores 54838, 54839, 54844, 54847, 54856, 54865, 54873, 54891 and more 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.

DLRadar's composite for Bayfield County blends several independent signals — foreclosure and pre-foreclosure filings, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, and the bank-stress headwind of the lenders operating locally — into one 0–100 score per ZIP, so a market can rank high on one axis and low on another.