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

Buffalo County, Wisconsin is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. ZIP-level distress ranges from 20/100 at the top down to 9/100. DLRadar scores 9 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 15/100. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 0 on a 0–100 scale, a low reading.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 4.6% over twelve months, a 40/100-confidence read. This late in the run, the average masks the outliers as the ZIP scores below show.

With Buffalo County flat at +4.6% YoY (40/100 confidence), the wins are surgical — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. Lender stress at 0/100 (low) points the search to tax, code and ownership-change cases over REO.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Buffalo County are 54612 (20/100), 54738 (20/100), 54747 (19/100), 54755 (15/100), 54610 (12/100), 54622 (12/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Other tracked Buffalo County ZIPs include 54629, 54756, 54736.

Profile-wise, Buffalo County's tracked footprint come in at a 7.9% poverty rate, 10.7% of units sitting vacant, household income averaging about $72,247, roughly at the national median, a median age of 44.8, home values averaging roughly $215,867, below the US, an owner-occupied share of 76%. Income, equity and tenure like these shape the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

All in at 15/100 over 9 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition for a disciplined buyer. Unlock Buffalo County to see every parcel's owner, address and APN, its own score, the lender behind it and an exit read.

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

In Buffalo County, Wisconsin, the scores are a targeting tool first: they tell you which ZIPs hold the distress and which owners are most likely under real financial pressure, so limited acquisition effort lands where it converts. What supports the Buffalo County read is documentary: filings from the recorder and courts, federal price and bank data, and blanks wherever coverage is thin.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Buffalo County are 54612 (20/100), 54738 (20/100), 54747 (19/100), 54755 (15/100), 54610 (12/100), 54622 (12/100). DLRadar also scores 54629, 54756, 54736 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 Buffalo 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.