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

Rusk County, Wisconsin is mapped parcel-to-ZIP by DLRadar's public-record distress engine. ZIP-level distress ranges from 18/100 at the top down to 12/100. Coverage runs to 14 ZIPs across Rusk County, a minimal 14/100 average. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 60/100 — elevated, a sign of lender stress locally.

The peak-phase county posted home values that rose 4.6% over twelve months, at 40/100 phase confidence. At this stage of the cycle, blanket buying underperforms so screen ZIP by ZIP.

Rusk County's topped-out +4.6% YoY (40/100 confidence) means the wins are surgical and a county-wide sweep stays on the shelf. Its 60/100 lender headwind is a buyer tailwind: banks under pressure move REO faster.

Leading Rusk County on distress: 54745 (18/100), 54757 (18/100), 54835 (16/100), 54766 (14/100), 54817 (14/100), 54868 (14/100). Also scored across the county: 54728, 54526, 54530, 54563, 54731, 54819, 54848, 54895.

Profile-wise, Rusk County's tracked footprint come in at household income averaging about $64,581, below the national median, 11.3% of households below the poverty line, a 31.4% vacancy rate, a median age of 50.3, median home values around $192,364 (below the national figure), 84% owner-occupancy. Income, equity and tenure like these set up the kind of distress to expect and the buyer pool on exit.

At 14/100 composite over 14 ZIPs, Rusk County is a screen-by-ZIP market rather than a blanket buy. A DLRadar subscription opens every Rusk County parcel: owner, APN and address, a distress reading, the lender on title and exit timing.

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

Approach Rusk County by rank rather than by average — the 14/100 county figure conceals the spread, since the returns live in the top-scoring ZIPs. All Rusk County inputs are public record — recorder, court, FHFA and FDIC — and the score is rebuilt on ingest rather than modelled forward.

The ZIP breakdown for Rusk County leads with 54745 (18/100), 54757 (18/100), 54835 (16/100), 54766 (14/100), 54817 (14/100), 54868 (14/100). DLRadar also scores 54728, 54526, 54530, 54563, 54731, 54819, 54848, 54895 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.

The Rusk 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.