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

Every ZIP in Jefferson County, Wisconsin carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. The county's ZIP scores run from 19 up to 30/100. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 59 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading. Coverage runs to 19 ZIPs across Jefferson County, a low 26/100 average.

In its expansion phase, Jefferson County home prices rose 5.3% across the last year, a 32/100-confidence read. Despite the upswing, pockets of distress persist which the scoring still flags.

Even appreciating at +5.3% YoY (32/100 confidence), distress still hides in specific ZIPs where the scoring still flags pressure. A mid-cycle 59/100 lender reading means both signal sets in play here.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Jefferson County are 53118 (30/100), 53119 (30/100), 53038 (28/100), 53066 (28/100), 53094 (28/100), 53137 (28/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Further scored ZIPs: 53156, 53178, 53538, 53549, 53551, 53036, 53190, 53563, 53534, 53559.

By the numbers, Jefferson County's scored ZIPs show median home values around $315,147 (near the national figure), residents with a median age around 42.6, incomes around $88,648, 7.7% of households below the poverty line, an owner-occupied share of 77%, 7.2% of units sitting vacant. Numbers like these shape the depth of motivated supply and the pace of resale.

With a low 26/100 reading over 19 ZIPs, Jefferson County rewards parcel-by-parcel work for a disciplined buyer. Inside DLRadar, each Jefferson County property carries owner, APN and address, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.

Whether Jefferson 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 Jefferson County can be compared directly against any county in the country.

Used properly, Jefferson County, Wisconsin's scores are a triage layer: they rank where motivated sellers cluster so acquisition spend goes to the ZIPs that convert rather than across Jefferson County as a whole. All Jefferson County inputs are public record — recorder, court, FHFA and FDIC — and the score is rebuilt on ingest rather than modelled forward.

Drilling in, Jefferson County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 53118 (30/100), 53119 (30/100), 53038 (28/100), 53066 (28/100), 53094 (28/100), 53137 (28/100). DLRadar also scores 53156, 53178, 53538, 53549, 53551, 53036, 53190, 53563 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 Jefferson 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.