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

For Dane County, Wisconsin, DLRadar turns county and parcel public records into a single distress score per ZIP. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 56/100 (moderate). Individual Dane County ZIPs score between 13 and 24 on the 0–100 composite. Coverage runs to 46 ZIPs across Dane County, a low 23/100 average.

The neutral-phase county posted home values that rose 4.7% over twelve months (phase confidence 26/100). With pricing topped out, broad sweeps stop paying as the ZIP scores below show.

At +4.7% YoY and 26/100 confidence, the wins are surgical — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. A mid-cycle 56/100 lender reading implies a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

Leading Dane County on distress: 53515 (24/100), 53527 (24/100), 53528 (24/100), 53529 (24/100), 53531 (24/100), 53534 (24/100). The breakdown continues through 53558, 53559, 53562, 53571, 53572, 53575, 53589, 53590, 53593, 53597 and more.

Demographically, Dane County's scored ZIPs come in at a median household income near $90,436 (above the US norm), vacancy near 5.5%, a 10.8% poverty rate, home values averaging roughly $378,123, in line with the US, residents with a median age around 39.2, an owner-occupied share of 67%. These fundamentals set up where pressure builds and how liquid the exit will be.

With a low 23/100 reading over 46 ZIPs, Dane County rewards parcel-by-parcel work where the ZIP scores point. Inside DLRadar, each Dane County property carries owner and contact detail, APN, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.

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

For an acquisition buyer, the practical use of Dane County, Wisconsin's scores is triage: the ZIPs and parcels carrying the highest composite are where motivated sellers and below-market exits concentrate, while lower-scored areas rarely justify the marketing spend. The Dane County figures are auditable line by line — county recorders and courts, FHFA price data, FDIC bank filings — with gaps left visible rather than filled by estimate.

Drilling in, Dane County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 53515 (24/100), 53527 (24/100), 53528 (24/100), 53529 (24/100), 53531 (24/100), 53534 (24/100). DLRadar also scores 53558, 53559, 53562, 53571, 53572, 53575, 53589, 53590 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 Dane 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.