ZIP 53555 Foreclosure, Tax-Lien & Distress Report

In Columbia County, Wisconsin, ZIP 53555 scores 23 of 100 for composite distress, a low level on DLRadar's distress index. What sets it apart are the readings on structural risk (53/100), construction/permit lag (43/100), institutional ownership (19/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (19/100) and mortgage stress (7/100) register low. Structural risk reads 53/100 against active distress of 2/100. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (85/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (85/100).

Prices here sit in a neutral phase: values rose 4.7% over the trailing year, and 20% higher over three years (phase confidence 26/100). Even climbing markets leave specific parcels in distress; the scoring isolates them.

The ZIP holds roughly 4,531 housing units. 2.5% of residents fall below the poverty threshold. Rent burden reaches 34% of tenant households. The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 25/100. A median home runs $392,200 here, or 3.2 times local income. Vacancy runs 14.8%, above the national norm and a classic distress-and-opportunity signal. Educational attainment sits at 39% bachelor's-or-above. The tenure split is 87% owner-occupied to 13% rented. Households earn a median $110,926 — above the roughly $78,000 national figure. Population is roughly 8,708 with a median age of 51.

On the whole, 53555 leans distressed, with opportunity clustered in specific stressed parcels. While 53555 carries no listed distressed parcels today, each signal above ties back to a public dataset on the same national scale.

Whether 53555 runs hot or quiet, its 23/100 composite is built the same deterministic way as every ZIP in the country — from recorded foreclosure, mortgage, tax-lien, climate and lender signals — so 53555 can be compared directly against any other ZIP in Columbia County, Wisconsin or nationwide. 53555 carries no interpolated values - each figure ties to a public source and refreshes the moment new records land.

53555's headline rolls up several separately-scored signals, which is why two ZIPs can share a composite yet face very different distress. For a buyer, 53555 is one row in a larger workflow: confirm the score, pull the distressed parcels behind it, then move from signal to funded, closed acquisition through DLRadar.