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

Portage County, Wisconsin sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. Individual Portage County ZIPs score between 15 and 29 on the 0–100 composite. The county's lending-headwind score sits at 45/100 (moderate). DLRadar scores 21 ZIPs here, with a mean composite of 18/100.

The county market is in a expansion phase: home prices rose 5.3% over the past year (phase confidence 32/100). Despite the upswing, specific ZIPs still slip which the scoring still flags.

With growth of +5.3% YoY (32/100 confidence), liquidity improves for clean exits which speeds resale of distressed buys. A mid-cycle 45/100 lender reading means both signal sets in play here.

Highest scores land in 54455 (29/100), 54499 (23/100), 54454 (21/100), 54945 (21/100), 54475 (20/100), 54977 (20/100); each opens to a full parcel breakdown. Further scored ZIPs: 54981, 54473, 54494, 54406, 54407, 54423, 54443, 54458, 54467, 54481.

By the numbers, Portage County's tracked footprint come in at median home values around $227,752 (below the national figure), a 8.1% poverty rate, 82% owner-occupancy, incomes around $76,088, residents with a median age around 44.3, vacancy near 12.7%. Read together, they drive who is forced to sell and how readily the market absorbs it.

Net of it all, 18/100 over 21 ZIPs means Portage County is a screen-by-ZIP market and not a county-wide play. Subscribers get each Portage County parcel's owner, mailing address, APN, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.

The distress read for Portage County, Wisconsin is refreshed as new public records post and uses the same methodology coast to coast, so Portage County stays directly comparable to any other market you track.

For an acquisition buyer, the practical use of Portage 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. 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 Portage County data is thin.

The ZIP breakdown for Portage County leads with 54455 (29/100), 54499 (23/100), 54454 (21/100), 54945 (21/100), 54475 (20/100), 54977 (20/100). DLRadar also scores 54981, 54473, 54494, 54406, 54407, 54423, 54443, 54458 and more across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

DLRadar's composite for Portage 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.