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

Rock County, Wisconsin is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. Lender pressure in Rock County registers 74/100 — a elevated bank-stress headwind. Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 17 to 28 out of 100. The county spans 20 scored ZIP codes, averaging 24/100 composite distress.

Currently peak, Rock County saw prices rise 4.2% year over year (phase confidence 33/100). On a market plateau, blanket buying underperforms — the edge is parcel by parcel.

Rock County's topped-out +4.2% YoY (33/100 confidence) means the wins are surgical — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. Bank stress at 74/100 signals what's coming: expect more lender-driven inventory soon.

The most-distressed ZIP codes in Rock County are 53538 (28/100), 53190 (25/100), 53501 (25/100), 53505 (25/100), 53511 (25/100), 53525 (25/100), each with its own full DLRadar report. Coverage extends to 53536, 53537, 53545, 53546, 53548, 53563, 53576, 53114, 53534, 53585 among others.

Demographically, the Rock County ZIPs on file show a 5.8% vacancy rate, typical home values near $255,247, a median household income near $75,492 (near the US norm), a median age of 42.3, 10.1% of households below the poverty line, 71% of homes owner-occupied. These fundamentals shape the supply of motivated sellers and the speed of resale.

Rock County, Wisconsin's 24/100 average over 20 ZIPs says distress here is parcel-specific — work it parcel by parcel. Subscribers get each Rock County parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

Because Rock County, Wisconsin is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Rock County against neighboring markets or the rest of Wisconsin on equal footing.

Approach Rock County by rank rather than by average — the 24/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. Provenance for Rock County is explicit: recorders and courts for filings, FHFA for prices, FDIC for lenders. No interpolation, no synthetic values.

The ZIP breakdown for Rock County leads with 53538 (28/100), 53190 (25/100), 53501 (25/100), 53505 (25/100), 53511 (25/100), 53525 (25/100). DLRadar also scores 53536, 53537, 53545, 53546, 53548, 53563, 53576, 53114 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 Rock 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.