Polk County, WI: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Across Polk County, Wisconsin, DLRadar grades every ZIP for foreclosure, mortgage, tax and bank-stress distress. DLRadar scores 20 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 18/100. Lender pressure in Polk County registers 68/100 — a elevated bank-stress headwind. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 13 to 20 out of 100.
The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 4.6% over twelve months, at 40/100 phase confidence. With values leveling off, blanket buying underperforms so screen ZIP by ZIP.
Near the cycle top at +4.6% YoY (40/100 confidence), the wins are surgical so the headline market won't hand it over. An elevated 68/100 reading favors patient capital: banks under pressure move REO faster.
Leading Polk County on distress: 54001 (20/100), 54006 (20/100), 54009 (20/100), 54020 (20/100), 54024 (20/100), 54810 (20/100). Also scored across the county: 54824, 54853, 54858, 54837, 54026, 54005, 54826, 54889, 54004, 54829.
On the housing-and-income side, Polk County's tracked footprint run median home values around $258,675 (below the national figure), 82% of homes owner-occupied, residents with a median age around 47.2, a median household income near $79,385 (near the US norm), 9.8% of households below the poverty line, vacancy near 23.6%. Taken together, they signal the volume of pressured sellers and the exit liquidity behind them.
At 18/100 composite over 20 ZIPs, the edge is selective acquisition rather than a blanket buy. A DLRadar subscription opens every Polk County parcel: owner, address and APN, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.
No county is too small to score: Polk County, Wisconsin runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Polk County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in Wisconsin.
Used properly, Polk 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 Polk County as a whole. What supports the Polk County read is documentary: filings from the recorder and courts, federal price and bank data, and blanks wherever coverage is thin.
Drilling in, Polk County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 54001 (20/100), 54006 (20/100), 54009 (20/100), 54020 (20/100), 54024 (20/100), 54810 (20/100). DLRadar also scores 54824, 54853, 54858, 54837, 54026, 54005, 54826, 54889 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.
The Polk 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.
| ZIP | State | Distress score | 🔒 Owner | 🔒 Property Address | 🔒 Parcel ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54001 | WI | 20 | |||
| 54006 | WI | 20 | |||
| 54009 | WI | 20 | |||
| 54020 | WI | 20 | |||
| 54024 | WI | 20 | |||
| 54810 | WI | 20 | |||
| 54824 | WI | 20 | |||
| 54853 | WI | 20 |
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