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

Sawyer County, Wisconsin sits inside DLRadar's nationwide distress index, built entirely from public records. There are 12 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 15/100). ZIP-level distress ranges from 17/100 at the top down to 11/100. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 34/100.

In its peak phase, Sawyer County home prices rose 4.6% across the last year, at 40/100 phase confidence. At this stage of the cycle, the average masks the outliers as the ZIP scores below show.

Sawyer County's topped-out +4.6% YoY (40/100 confidence) means the wins are surgical well beyond the county average. A contained 34/100 bank headwind points the search to owner-driven distress more than bank stock.

Top distress by ZIP runs 54828 (17/100), 54862 (17/100), 54867 (17/100), 54896 (17/100), 54517 (16/100), 54821 (16/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. Also scored across the county: 54835, 54843, 54876, 54817, 54530, 54552.

Profile-wise, Sawyer County's tracked footprint show typical home values near $232,608, a 12.9% poverty rate, 86% of homes owner-occupied, a median age of 54.4, vacancy near 50%, a median household income near $60,550 (below the US norm). Numbers like these set up who sells under pressure and how fast a deal moves.

Net of it all, 15/100 over 12 ZIPs means Sawyer County is a screen-by-ZIP market where the ZIP scores point. Unlock Sawyer County to see every parcel's owner and contact detail, APN, per-parcel scoring with lender exposure and resale velocity.

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

For an acquisition buyer, the practical use of Sawyer 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. The Sawyer County figures are auditable line by line — county recorders and courts, FHFA price data, FDIC bank filings — with gaps left visible rather than filled by estimate.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Sawyer County are 54828 (17/100), 54862 (17/100), 54867 (17/100), 54896 (17/100), 54517 (16/100), 54821 (16/100). DLRadar also scores 54835, 54843, 54876, 54817, 54530, 54552 across the county. Each code carries its own composite built from that ZIP's foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien and lender signals, so two neighboring ZIPs can diverge sharply even inside one county.

DLRadar's composite for Sawyer 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.