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

Every ZIP in Washington County, Wisconsin carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 50 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading. There are 18 scored ZIPs in the county (mean composite 26/100). Across its ZIPs, composite distress spans 13 to 31 out of 100.

In its expansion phase, Washington County home prices rose 5.7% across the last year (phase confidence 33/100). While the county appreciates, the laggards keep building so the laggard ZIPs are the opening.

Through Washington County's +5.7% YoY climb (33/100 confidence), well-bought parcels resell faster so buy those and momentum helps on exit. A moderate 50/100 lender headwind implies a blend the ZIP scores sort out.

The sharpest Washington County readings come from 53029 (31/100), 53017 (29/100), 53022 (29/100), 53033 (29/100), 53037 (29/100), 53076 (29/100) — open any for the parcel detail. Other tracked Washington County ZIPs include 53086, 53002, 53066, 53090, 53095, 53027, 53040, 53012, 53021, 53010.

Underneath the scores, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Washington County show vacancy near 4.6%, 81% of homes owner-occupied, poverty running near 5.1%, home values averaging roughly $365,983, in line with the US, incomes around $99,642, a median age of 43.5. Numbers like these signal where pressure builds and how liquid the exit will be.

Net of it all, 26/100 over 18 ZIPs means Washington County rewards parcel-by-parcel work — work it parcel by parcel. A DLRadar subscription opens every Washington County parcel: owner, APN and address, a distress reading, the lender on title and exit timing.

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

Washington County, Wisconsin is best worked from the top of the score down; blanket outreach across Washington County dilutes effort that the ZIP-level numbers would have focused. Every Washington County signal ties to a named public source, and where the record is sparse DLRadar shows nothing instead of guessing.

At the ZIP level, the sharpest readings in Washington County are 53029 (31/100), 53017 (29/100), 53022 (29/100), 53033 (29/100), 53037 (29/100), 53076 (29/100). DLRadar also scores 53086, 53002, 53066, 53090, 53095, 53027, 53040, 53012 and more 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.

Under Washington County's headline composite sit distinct layers — recorded foreclosures, tax and lien delinquency, mortgage stress and bank headwind — each scored separately before they roll up, so the same total can describe very different markets.